§ Baroness Finlay of Llandaffasked her Majesty's Government:
How much of the new Higher Education Funding Council funds for the expansion of healthcare studies in universities is being retained in universities as overheads to meet central costs; and whether any of these funds are being diverted to support other departments. [HL4061]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Education and Skills (Lord Filkin)The information requested is not centrally collected. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) allocates resources to institutions not to specific subject departments within them. It is up to higher education institutions, as autonomous bodies, 175WA to manage the resources they receive from the funding council, and other stakeholders, and to decide how the funding is distributed internally to meet central overheads and to support individual departments and schools.