Government Expenditure on Universities in England

Abstract

IN a written Parliamentary reply to Mr. Kenneth Lindsay on January 18, Sir Stafford Cripps, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that the non-recurrent payments to the Universities in England during the years 1945-49 were as follows : 1945-46, £620,895, 1946-47, £566,996 ; 1947-48, £1,920,508 ; 1948-49 (to January 14, 1949), £1,980,686. The principal projects covered by these grants are the purchase of sites and buildings, the erection of new buildings (including new teaching blocks for science and technology and halls of residence) and the provision of new equipment. The amounts paid to individual institutions have varied according to the opportunities for building and the degree of expansion of numbers in an individual centre. Sums in excess of £200,000 are listed as follows : University of London, £1,283,348 ; University of Durham, £504,011 ; University of Nottingham, £319,083 ; University of Birmingham, £292,485 ; University of Leeds, £270,418 ; University College of Hull,'£240,813; University of Bristol, £230,521 ; University of Oxford, £217,507 ; University of Reading, £215,645 ; University College, Leicester, £213,902.