asked the Lord President of the Council and Minister for Science if he will now announce the additional recurrent grants he is making to the University Grants Committee to enable the universities to carry out those recommendations of the Robbins Report which Her Majesty's Government have accepted.

I have nothing to add to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mr. Swingler) on 21st January.

What is causing the delay? Has the University Grants Committee asked for a global sum yet? Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman now pruning it, or is it merely the case that there are not enough clerks and adding machines in either the U.G.C. or the right hon. and learned Gentleman's office?

Settlement of these matters must take into account the needs of thirty-seven separate universities and university institutions, which have to be consulted.