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Higher Education Funding
Lord Baker of Dorking asked Her Majesty's Government:
- What was the amount provided by the state, through public sector funding (both national and local) to higher education in each of the last 20 years, expressed as a percentage of the gross domestic product. [HL1326]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Education and Skills (Baroness Ashton of Upholland): The proportion of GDP spent on UK higher education by the government for each financial year, both including and excluding the DTI/OST science budget, is given in the attached table, along with the spending figures and latest GDP figures. From 1998, students taking full-time undergraduate courses, and their families, made a contribution to tuition fees on a means tested basis. The table also shows public expenditure on higher education when those contributions are taken into account.
All three sets of figures include expenditure from public funds on tuition fees, maintenance awards and student loans. Figures for 2001-02 and 2002-03 are based on current spending plans. The proportions will vary depending upon the performance of the economy, which determines the level of GDP.
Total public spending on higher education in the UK is currently around £10 billion. By 2002-03, public spending on higher education in the UK, excluding the science budget, will have increased by just over 26 per cent in cash terms compared with 1998-99: a real terms increase of 15 per cent.
| Year | GDP CASH (£billion) | HE Spend Including Science Budget (£billion) | HE Spend Including Science Budget as % of GDP | HE Spend excluding Science Budget (£billion) | HE Spend Excluding Science Budget as % of GDP | HE Spend Inclusive of Tuition fee Income from Students and their families Including Science Budget (£billion) | HE Spend Inclusive of Tuition fee Income from Students and their families Including Science Budget as % of GDP |
| 1981–82 | 259.45 | 3.44 | 1.33% | 2.99 | 1.15% | — | — |
| 1982–83 | 283.44 | 3.67 | 1.29% | 3.18 | 1.12% | — | — |
| 1983–84 | 308.07 | 3.93 | 1.27% | 3.42 | 1.11% | — | — |
| 1984–85 | 330.70 | 4.07 | 1.23% | 3.52 | 1.06% | — | — |
| 1985–86 | 362.81 | 4.20 | 1.16% | 3.61 | 1.00% | — | — |
| 1986–87 | 388.13 | 4.43 | 1.14% | 3.81 | 0.98% | — | — |
| 1987–88 | 431.24 | 4.76 | 1.10% | 4.10 | 0.95% | — | — |
| 1988–89 | 479.93 | 5.11 | 1.06% | 4.41 | 0.92% | — | — |
| 1989–90 | 525.14 | 5.62 | 1.07% | 4.80 | 0.91% | — | — |
| 1990–91 | 563.74 | 6.20 | 1.10% | 5.31 | 0.94% | — | — |
| 1991–92 | 595.05 | 6.97 | 1.17% | 6.06 | 1.02% | — | — |
| 1992–93 | 615.40 | 7.82 | 1.27% | 6.77 | 1.10% | — | — |
| 1993–94 | 653.58 | 8.38 | 1.28% | 7.21 | 1.10% | — | — |
| 1994–95 | 690.58 | 8.96 | 1.30% | 7.73 | 1.12% | — | — |
| 1995–96 | 729.00 | 9.36 | 1.28% | 8.07 | 1.11% | — | — |
| 1996–97 | 772.92 | 9.17 | 1.19% | 7.86 | 1.02% | — | — |
| 1997–98 | 824.40 | 9.40 | 1.14% | 8.07 | 0.98% | — | — |
| 1998–99 | 868.81 | 9.30 | 1.07% | 7.97 | 0.92% | 9.44 | 1.09% |
| 1999–00 | 914.9 | 9.75 | 1.07% | 8.25 | 0.90% | 10.02 | 1.09% |
| 2000–01 | 954.8 | 10.50 | 1.10% | 8.91 | 0.93% | 10.82 | 1.13% |
| 2001–02 | 990.0 | 11.41 | 1.15% | 9.65 | 0.97% | 11.79 | 1.19% |
| 2002–03 | 1,036 | 11.99 | 1.16% | 10.08 | 0.97% | 12.40 | 1.20% |
Measles, Mumps and Rubella Immunisation
Lord Harris of Haringey asked Her Majesty's Government:
- What the measles, mumps and rubella immunisation rates were in each of the London health authorities (a) in the latest year for which figures are available, and (b) for each of the previous two years.[HL1400]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Lord Hunt of Kings Heath): The measles, mumps and rubella immunisation rates for children by their second birthday, in each of the London health authorities in the last three years for which information is available, is shown in the following table.
| Health Authority | 2000–01 | 1999–00 | 1998–99 |
| England | 87 | 88 | 88 |
| London | 79 | 80 | 82 |
| Barking & Havering | 89 | 88 | 88 |
| Barnet | 83 | 83 | 85 |
| Bexley & Greenwich | 73 | 78 | 83 |
| Brent & Harrow | 85 | 83 | 87 |
| Bromley | 73 | 81 | 85 |
| Camden & Islington | 81 | 80 | 81 |
| Croydon | 78 | 74 | 71 |
| Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow | 81 | 77 | 81 |
| East London & The City | 79 | 79 | 79 |
| Enfield & Haringey | 78 | 82 | 84 |
| Hillingdon | 84 | 85 | 87 |
| Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster | 74 | 76 | 84 |
| Kingston & Richmond | 76 | 81 | 81 |
| Lambeth, Southwark & Lewisham | 73 | 76 | 77 |
| Merton, Sutton & Wandsworth | 75 | 82(1) | 82(1) |
| Redbridge & Waltham Forest | 92 | 91 | 91 |
(1) Data not available: 1997–98 data shown.
Lord Harris of Haringey asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: The United Kingdom is supplied by two manufacturers of MMR vaccine and by one supplier of rubella vaccine. The cost to the Department of Health of purchasing MMR and rubella vaccines is commercially confidential. However, the list price of a single dose of MMR vaccine is £6.23 for that manufactured by SmithKline Beecham and £9.22 for that manufactured by Aventis Pasteur. The list price for rubella vaccine, manufactured by SmithKline Beecham, is £2.53 per vial. Children are recommended to receive two doses of MMR vaccine. Rubella vaccine is recommended for non-immune women. No licensed single component mumps or measles vaccines are manufactured for or marketed in the United Kingdom.
Seperate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines in place of MMR have never been recommended by the Government's independent expert advisory committees on immunisation. As a result, no estimates have been made of the cost of giving separate vaccines. Cost is not an issue in decisions over MMR immunisation.
Baroness Noakes asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: Figures of total spend on information management and technology in the National Health Service are not recorded separately.
The future investment will vary according to local plans and priorities; these will be funded from both new targeted funds and existing baseline.
The new investment is aimed to speed up local implementation. The sums are separately identified within allocations and their spend against plan is monitored in the Service and Financial Framework process.
Baroness Goudie asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Department of Health departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £768,348,000 from £49,805,054,000 to £50,573,402,000 and the administration cost limit will be increased by £9,701,000 from £312,234,000 to £321,935,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are set out in the following table:
The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from the take up of end year flexibility £359,377,000 (£9,000,000 administration costs) as set out in Table 6 of the Public Expenditure 2000-01 Provisional Outturn White Paper Cm 5243 published in July 2001.
Transfers of provision from the Home Office of £21,173,000 (£400,000 administration costs) mainly for the National Treatment Agency and drug treatment services and research. A net transfer from the Scottish Executive comprising an increase of £1,188,000 (£128,000 administration costs) for contributions to the cost of non-departmental public bodies, committee, the high security infectious disease unit, HIV surveillance funding and post-graduate medical education, offset by £819,000 for out of area treatment costs. A net transfer from the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions of £4,950,000 (£5,100,000 of which £100,000 administration costs) mainly for the teenage pregnancy unit, offset by £150,000 for mobility centres. From the Office of Government Commerce £50,000 for Avonbridge House. From the Office of Science and Technology £45,000 (administration costs) for a contribution to the Human Genetics Commission. To the Department for Education and Skills £4,097,000 for education health partnerships and educational advisers. A net transfer from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The administration cost limit has been increased by £9,701,000 from £312,234,000 to £321,935,000. In addition to the changes detailed above, there is a further net increase of £43,000 comprising an increase in the Medical Device Agency's costs of £223,000 for assessment and evaluation of devices, offset by a reduction of £180,000 in respect of the NHS Appointments Commission.
The change to the capital element of the DEL arises from the take up of end year flexibility of £95,632,000 as set out in Table 6 of the Public Expenditure 2000–01 Provisional Outturn White Paper Cm 5243 published in July 2001. From the Capital Modernisation Fund £50,000,000 to support the NHS capital programme and a reallocation from resource DEL of £4,852,000
The take up of non-voted supplementary credit approvals for personal social services in England has increased by £423,000 from £18,700,000 to £19,123,000 in respect of the take up of end year flexibility entitlement mentioned above.
The increase will be offset by inter-departmental transfers and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.
What the costs to the National Health Service are of 10,000 doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine; and what the costs to the National Health Service would be of 10,000 separate doses of vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella.[HL1402]
Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 13 November (WA 73):
(a) how much was invested by the National Health Service in information management and technology in 2000–01;
(b) how much is planned to be invested in each of the years 2001–02, 2002–03 and 2003–04; and
(c) against what baseline the National Health Service Plan target of an extra £250 million invested in 2003–04 is to be measured.[HL1551]
Whether there are any proposals to amend the Department of Health departmental expenditure limit and administration cost limit for 2001-02.[HL1646]
Resources Capital
Change New DEL Of Which Voted Non-voted Change New DEL Of Which Voted Non-voted
617,391 48,334,111 48,923,590 589,479 150,957 2,239,291 254,195 1,985,096
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