HC Deb 21 December 1999 vol 341 c555W
Mr. Dalyell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the Government's policy is on the relative amounts of funding available for(a) single-discipline higher education institutions and (b) multi-discipline higher education institutions. [103364]

Mr. Wicks

The Government support diversity within the higher education sector. In its distribution of funding the Higher Education Funding Council for England takes into account the size and range of disciplines in institutions as well as factors directly related to teaching and research and keeps under review those institutions that specialise in a few subjects.