§ Mr. WrayTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what measures she has introduced since 1997 to aid recruitment and retention of lecturers in higher education. [53628]
§ Margaret HodgeThe recruitment and retention of staff is the responsibility of higher education institutions. However, our spending plans for the English higher education sector include £50 million in 2001–02, rising to £110 million in 2002–03 and £170 million in 2003–04, to underpin the human resource strategies which institutions have drawn up, and which address recruitment and retention as well as the modernisation of reward systems.