Part of Oral Answers to Questions – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 July 1981.
We already have the 1980–81 figures, which I have accepted. They are about 7,000 more than the 1979–80 figures, which was the baseline used by the University Grants Committee. Those were the most up-to-date, safe figures which the committee used when it did its work.