Higher Education Funding Council

HC Deb 11 January 1999 vol 323 cc75-6W

Mr. Rogers

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many of the newly appointed members of the Higher Education Funding Council (Wales) are resident in Wales. [65070]

Mr. Hain

Five re-appointments to the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales were announced on 8 December 1998. Two of these re-appointed members, Dr. Brynley Roberts and Professor Brian Clarkson, are resident in Wales.

Of the remainder, Sir Philip Jones, the Chairman, was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School and Dr. Kenneth Gray is a graduate of the University of Wales, Bangor.