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Mr. Betts : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what action he intends to take against those companies awarded cabling franchises which have made no significant progress in cabling properties to date.
Mr. Leigh [holding answer 23 March 1993] : Responsibility for monitoring and, if appropriate, enforcing compliance with build obligations contained in cable operators' licences issued under the Telecommunications Act 1984 is a matter for the Director General of Telecommunications.
999 Calls
Ms Estelle Morris : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will require telephone companies to publish the waiting time for 999 calls from the point the telephone call is made until the point where it is answered by an emergency service.
Mr. Leigh [holding answer 22 March 1993] : It would fall to the Director General of Telecommunications to require the production by telephone companies of such data and to provide for their publication. He has no plans to do so at present. The provision of 999 call handling services is, however, kept under active review by the relevant parties.
Animal Experimentation
Mr. David Porter : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what recent representations he has had about British and EC regulations to cut the testing of cosmetics on animals ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Leigh [holding answer 22 March 1993] : Since adoption of a common position to ban the testing of ingredients in cosmetics on animals by 1998--subject to a viable alternative--proposed in the sixth Council amendment to directive 76/768/EEC, some 250 letters have been received about ending such testing.
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Free Flights Offers
Mr. Nigel Griffiths : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what powers he has to investigate complaints about sales promotions which offer free flights to accompany the sale of goods or services ; and what recent complaints he has received.
Mr. Leigh [holding answer 16 March 1993] : I have no such powers. I have recently received four complaints.
NATIONAL FINANCE
Tax Relief (Dividends)
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what would be the effect of restricting tax relief on dividends to 25 per cent. in 1993-94, 1994-95 and 1995-96.
Mr. Dorrell : When a United Kingdom resident company pays a dividend to a United Kingdom resident shareholder, the shareholder receives a tax credit from the Exchequer. Under the Chancellor's Budget proposals, the value of the tax credit is being reduced, for dividends paid after 5 April 1993, from 25 per cent. of the value of the dividend and credit to 20 per cent. The effect of this proposal is described in the "Financial Statement and Budget Report" and the Inland Revenue Budget day press release.
Dividends are not deductible in calculating profits liable to corporation tax, but the advance corporation tax a company pays when it pays a dividend can be set off against the corporation tax on its profits. Under the Chancellor's Budget proposals, that set off will be reduced to 22.5 per cent. in 1993-94 of taxable profits, and to 20 per cent. for 1994-95 and subsequent years.
Domestic Fuel
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish figures showing the revenue yield in (a) 1994-95 and (b) 1995-96 from value added tax on domestic fuel and power, giving figures separately for value added tax on (i) oil, (ii) piped gas, (iii) cylinder gas, (iv) electricity and (v) coal.
Sir John Cope : Table 4.1 of the 1993-94 FSBR provides an estimate of the total yield in 1994-95 and 1995-96 from introducing VAT on domestic fuel and power. No separate figures are available for the VAT yield from particular types of fuel and power.
Women (Unpaid Work)
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps are being taken by his Department to develop means of measuring the economic value of unpaid work undertaken by women.
Mr. Portillo : The Government recognise the contribution of women-- and men--who undertake work caring for others in the home. For example, home responsibilities protection (HRP) is designed to protect the state pension position of both women and men who are unable to work regularly because they are required to stay at home to look after a child or sick or disabled person. Home responsibilities protection reduces the number of qualifying years a person needs to qualify for a full basic pension.
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Mileage Allowance
Mr. Allen : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to review the Inland Revenue guidelines on tax-free mileage rates paid by employers ; and what is the formula now used to arrive at those rates.
Mr. Dorrell : The tax-free rates for 1993-94 were announced on 23 March 1993 in an Inland Revenue press release and are set out below, with the 1992-93 rates in brackets. The formula used to arrive at the tax-free mileage rates ensures that, for drivers who do typical private mileages, the rates reflect tax-allowable business costs as closely as possible whatever the level of business mileage.
|Up to 4,000 miles|Over 4,000 miles
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Cars up to 1,000 cc |26p (25p) |15p (14p)
Cars 1,001 to 1,500 cc |32p (30p) |18p (17p)
Cars 1,501 to 2,000 cc |40p (38p) |22p (21p)
Cars over 2,000 cc |54p (51p) |30p (27p)
Cycle Helmets
Miss Lestor : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what progress has been made in attempts to zero-rate child cycle helmets for value added tax.
Sir John Cope : Customs and Excise have recently completed a review of the zero-rating currently available for children's cycle helmets. A decision on the outcome will be announced shortly.
Miss Lestor : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on what grounds value added tax is applied to cycle helmets and not to motor cycle helmets ; and if he will make a statement.
Sir John Cope : Zero rating of cycle helmets is limited to those which qualify under the provisions available for young children's clothing and footwear. Legislation was introduced in 1974 to provide zero rating specifically for protective boots and helmets for industrial use and helmets meeting state safety standards for use by persons driving or riding a motor bicycle. There are no VAT reliefs for safety items generally.
Domestic Fuel
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the proposed new VAT charges on domestic fuel will apply to the standing charges.
Sir John Cope : Standing charges are regarded as part of the payment for the supply of fuel and power and will therefore be subject to the VAT changes announced in the Budget statement.
Tax Liability
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate (a) the average and (b) the total tax liability of taxpayers in each region of the United Kingdom in 1993-94 compared with the indexed 1987 -88 income tax regime.
Mr. Dorrell : I regret that this information is not available on a regional basis.
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Tax Liability
Mrs. Dunwoody : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has of the United Kingdom tax burden, in percentage averge terms in (a) 1993-94 and (b) 1995-96 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Dorrell : An estimate of the tax burden in 1993-94, and a projection for 1995-96, is provided in table 2B.2 of the 1993-94 "Financial Statement and Budget Report".
Mortgage Interest Tax Relief
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is his estimate of the cost of mortgage interest tax relief in 1993-94 and the number of borrowers who will benefit from it.
Mr. Dorrell : The cost of mortgage interest tax relief is provisionally estimated to be £4.3 billion in 1993-94 based on the conventional assumption that interest rates remain at their current levels.
The estimated number of single people or married couples benefiting from mortgage interest relief in 1993-94 is 9.9 million.
Pensioners (Income Tax)
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the (a) number and (b) percentage of people in receipt of the state retirement pension who will be liable to pay income tax in 1993-94.
Mr. Dorrell : The latest estimate is that 3.4 million of those receiving state retirement pension--about one third of the total--will be liable to income tax in 1993-94.
Investment
Mrs. Dunwoody : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer by what percentage rate (a) investment and (b) business investment is expected to grow as a result of the measures in his Budget, and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Portillo : The "Financial Statement and Budget Report" 1993-94, published along with the Budget, set out the forecast for total and business investment.
Petroleum Revenue Tax
Mr. O'Neill : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment his Department has made of the likely effect of Budget changes to petroleum revenue tax on exploration activity in the North sea ; and what assessment his Department has made of the likely effect on offshore investment of the changes announced in both petroleum revenue tax and advance corporation tax.
Mr. Dorrell [holding answer 25 March 1993] : Doubling the marginal rate of return should encourage investment in, and extend the life of, existing PRT-paying fields. For the future, finding and producing oil will be taken completely out of PRT. As with any tax cut, that will both increase after-tax costs and increase after-tax profits that would have been subject to PRT. Commercially viable exploration should continue unaffected, except by the greater scope for companies to benefit from success.
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FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
Yugoslavia
Mr. Hutton : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what resources are being made available by Her Majesty's Government to the Commission established by Security Council resolution 780 investigating alleged war crimes in the former Yugoslavia.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : The Commission is currently being funded from the UN regular budget to which we contribute. It has plans to set up a trust fund to provide for its future requirements. We shall be considering how best we might contribute.
Sri Lanka
Mr. Cox : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when the British high commissioner to Sri Lanka last visited the Jaffna area of Sri Lanka ; how long his visit lasted ; who accompanied him ; what areas of Jaffna he visited ; and if he will list the people the high commissioner met on his visit.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : The British high commissioner visited Jaffna on 18 February for one day. He was accompanied by General Ranatunga, the secretary of the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence, and the Australian high commissioner. He saw Palali air base and the Navy base at Karainagar. He met General R. de S. Daluwatte and Brigadier Wijendra at Palali and Commodore Sandagri at Karainagar.
Nuclear and Chemical Weapons
Mr. Cummings : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if Her Majesty's Government will make it their policy to deny places on science graduate and postgraduate courses to students from countries which fail to sign or ratify international protocols relating to nuclear or chemical weapons.
Mr. Boswell : I have been asked to reply.
The Government are determined to block potential avenues for the poliferation of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. We are discussing with representatives of the universities and colleges, which are responsible for the admission of students to courses, the most effective means of ensuring that postgraduate students and researchers from countries where there is a proliferation concern cannot gain access to relevant technologies through study or research in United Kingdom higher education.
HEALTH
Health Authorities
Ms Primarolo : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the cost of running, and the number of staff employed by each regional health authority and management executive outpost in each of the last five years.
Dr. Mawhinney : The cost of running regional health authorities is shown in table 1.
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Information on the numbers of staff employed by regional health authorities given in table 2 are not directly comparable as they include centrally managed functions--see note 4 to table. Figures for 1991 are not available centrally. For information for 1992 I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Mr. Gill) on 4 March at column 221 which gives figures for staff employed on core regional services produced by a special exercise conducted in mid 1992. Similar figures are not available for earlier years.The management executive outposts have been operational only since April 1992. Their running cost budget for 1992-93 is £3 million and they currently have 56 staff in post as shown in table 3.
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Table 1. Total Revenue Expenditure of Regional Health Authorities (RHAs) £000 (cash) RHA |1987-88|1988-89|1989-90|1990-91|1991-92 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Northern |20,978 |22,455 |25,813 |27,479 |63,474 Yorkshire |30,709 |31,733 |34,349 |42,094 |65,093 Trent |26,612 |28,158 |29,354 |21,982 |174,283 East Anglian |10,898 |12,664 |14,103 |19,694 |45,648 North-West Thames |8,672 |12,454 |14,529 |18,672 |57,619 North-East Thames |17,678 |20,723 |22,791 |26,710 |189,715 South-East Thames |17,374 |20,816 |25,964 |32,250 |250,032 South-West Thames |59,311 |63,240 |72,403 |70,499 |149,077 Wessex |9,468 |10,019 |11,992 |14,665 |25,017 Oxford |9,897 |10,871 |13,189 |15,816 |49,363 South Western |12,114 |13,229 |15,612 |13,756 |86,185 West Midlands |37,060 |38,811 |47,626 |53,917 |111,013 Mersey |19,023 |10,660 |12,773 |14,706 |23,961 North Western |41,133 |40,314 |42,576 |26,804 |65,151 Source: Annual accounts of regional health authorities (RHAs) 1987-88 to 1991-92. Notes: 1. The figures cover the total revenue expenditure of the authorities including that incurred on headquarters administration and on the management and provision of services in the years concerned. 2. The extent to which RHAs are involved in directly managing and accounting for ambulance and other services varies from region to region. The expenditure of individual RHAs is also influenced by other factors including variations in the size of the total populations served and the number of district health authorities comprising each region. 3. The figures for 1991-92 are not comparable to those for the earlier years, which predate the NHS reforms. In particular, many RHAs are directly involved in the purchase of healthcare and related services for their region and their 1991-92 expenditure includes substantial costs for patient treatment incurred under contracts with health care providers.
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Table 2
Staff employed by regional health authority headquarters and
headquarter units
as at 30 September
Whole-time equivalents
|1986 |1987 |1988 |1989 |1990
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Northern |2,630 |2,670 |2,710 |2,710 |2,740
Yorkshire |3,090 |3,160 |3,130 |3,190 |3,050
Trent |3,340 |3,070 |3,440 |3,380 |3,340
East Anglian |1,180 |1,290 |1,320 |1,320 |1,330
North West Thames |1,540 |2,300 |1,530 |1,560 |1,750
North East Thames |2,370 |2,450 |2,600 |2,650 |2,710
South East Thames |2,070 |2,120 |2,140 |2,130 |2,210
South West Thames |1,790 |1,790 |1,830 |1,900 |2,080
Wessex |1,310 |1,350 |1,360 |1,300 |1,430
Oxford |2,630 |1,650 |1,630 |1,600 |1,670
South Western |1,710 |1,680 |1,710 |1,680 |1,800
West Midlands |4,430 |4,920 |4,850 |4,860 |4,640
Mersey |2,260 |2,300 |1,690 |1,730 |1,740
North Western |3,870 |4,140 |4,250 |4,210 |3,130
|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------
Total |34,210 |34,890 |34,190 |34,230 |33,650
Notes:
1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
2. Figures are expressed as whole-time equivalents.
3. Consultants and senior registrars, whose contracts are held by
the regional health authority, are also included in the figures.
4. The services provided by each regional health authority
headquarters can be different. Some have the blood transfusion
service, ambulance services etc. centralised, whereas in other
regions these services are devolved to district health
authorities. In some cases, these services may be centralised in
some years and devolved in others.
Table 3
Table 3
Outpost |Number of staff
------------------------------------------------
North West |8
North East |8
East |11
South |10
South West |10
Midlands |9
|-------
Total |56
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Parliamentary Questions
Ms Primarolo : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she treats information held by the NHS management executive as being information held centrally when answering parliamentary questions.
Dr. Mawhinney : All validated information held by the national health service management executive is regarded as information held centrally.
GP Fund Holding
Ms Primarolo : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the cost of first and second wave general practitioner fund-holding in 1991-92, broken down into (a) general practitioner fund-holding management fee, (b) general practitioner fund-holding underspend, (c) general practitioner fund -holding computer costs, (d) administrative costs to the (i) family health services authority, (ii) district health authority, (iii) regional health authority and (iv) her Department and the management executive (e) administrative costs to trusts, (f) Audit Commission costs and (g) the cost of primary care team time.
Dr. Mawhinney : The information available centrally is as follows :
(a) £14 million in fund holders' management allowance costs was reimbursed in 1991-92.
(b) Fund holder underspends are not a cost but a saving from the fund- holding budget. These savings will be spent for the benefit of patients. They amounted to some £17 million in 1991-92, of which £3.5 million has been channelled into extra funds for district health authorities to spend on all patients.
(c) £11.6 million in computer costs was reimbursed to fund holders in 1991-92.
(d) (e) and (f) These costs are not separately available for fund holding.
(g) The cost of primary care team time is already allowed for in the management allowance.
Health Forums
Ms Jowell : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what consideration she has given to including a patients' representative on the London health service development forum, the Lodon implementation group executive or the primary health care forum.
Dr. Mawhinney : The London health service development forum, the London implementation group executive and the primary health care forum are small executive or advisory bodies charged with implementing our policy document "Making London Better". Patients' organisations are not represented on these bodies, but will, of course, be consulted whenever appropriate.
Representing the consumers of health care services continues to be the role of health authority purchasers, family health service authorities and community health councils. Their views will be taken fully into account.
Ms Jowell : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the estimated cost of servicing the London implementation group in the year 1993-94 ; and whether this cost is included in the £43.5 million additional money set aside for investment in primary care.
Dr. Mawhinney : The support costs of the London implementation group (LIG) will not be financed from the
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£43.5 million announced in "Making London Better", which is additional money for primary care in London. LIG is operating through, and being serviced by, the existing health agencies wherever possible. The cost of any additional support will be met by the Department and the four Thames regions.Accident and Emergency Services
Ms Jowell : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what consideration has been given to the desirability of locating obstetric, gynaecology and children's services on site so that they are readily accessible by hospital accident and emergency services.
Mr. Sackville : Accident and emergency departments should only be located in major hospitals, supported by a range of specialties on site and have good communications with specialties which are not on site. It is for purchasers and provider units to determine the most effective configuration of local provision for paediatric, obstetric and gynaecology services, which take full account of the needs of the local population and ensures that timely support is available to the accident and emergency service where appropriate.
Prescription Charges
Mrs. Anne Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to phase out the exemption of prescription charges for the conditions that are currently listed as benefiting from free prescriptions.
Dr. Mawhinney : The Government's policy is that people who can afford to do so should contribute towards the cost of national health service pharmaceutical services by paying prescription charges. Help with such charges is directed towards those likely to have the greatest difficulty in paying. The way in which the extensive exemptions on grounds of health or status may best contribute to this policy is kept under review.
Drug Prescribing
Mrs. Lait : To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 17 March, Official Report, column 303, when she expects the Advisory Committee on National Health Service Drugs to specify which existing products in the 10 new categories to be covered by the selected list regulations it will formally consider ; and on what basis the selection will be made.
Dr. Mawhinney : The Advisory Committee on National Health Service Drugs has set up sub-groups to undertake preliminary consideration, in the light of the committee's terms of reference, of the range of drugs within each of the new therapeutic categories. These sub-groups will report to the full committee, which will decide which drugs should be formally considered. The committee has not set dates for the reviews of particular categories, but relevant manufacturers will be informed in advance.
Mrs. Lait : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will place in the Library a list of the names of each product in each of the 10 therapeutic categories to be considered for inclusion in the selected list by the Advisory Committee on NHS Drugs.
Dr. Mawhinney : I cannot add to my reply to the hon. Member on 17 March at column 303.
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Dentists
Mr. Simon Coombs : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists are now being employed directly by family health service authorities.
Dr. Mawhinney : At 31 December 1992 there were 71 salaried dentists employed by family health service authorities.
Bowel Cancer
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has made for the establishment and funding of a national sigmoidoscopy screening programme for bowel cancer.
Mr. Sackville : There are no current plans to establish and fund a screening programme for bowel cancer.
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what evidence has been received by her Department of the effect on public health and economic benefits of a national sigmoidoscopy screening programme for bowel cancer.
Mr. Sackville : The value of screening for colorectal or bowel cancer is uncertain. The Department is considering initiatives, including progress of a trial being undertaken at Nottingham on faecal occult blood testing ; the potential for flexible sigmoidoscopy as compared to faecal occult blood testing ; and other possible screening options.
Counterfeit Drugs
Mr. Chisholm : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps are taken to reassure patients that dispensed drugs are authentic rather than counterfeit drugs.
Dr. Mawhinney : All dispensed medicines are strictly controlled by the Medicines Act 1968. Compliance with the requirements of this Act by those who manufacture, import, wholesale and dispense medicines in the United Kingdom is continuously monitored and enforced by the Medicines Control Agency and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
The Medicines Control Agency also operates a round-the-clock service by which any suspected defective medicinal product, including counterfeits, can be reported to the agency. The report is investigated with the licence holder and any other parties involved. Any necessary action can be implemented quickly. The agency is supported by laboratories equipped to investigate any suspected counterfeit products.
Mr. Chisholm : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps she is taking to prevent counterfeiting and reimportation of drugs.
Dr. Mawhinney : The Medicines Control Agency fully investigates all alleged reports of counterfeiting and illegal re-importation of drugs and takes prompt action, including prosecution where appropriate to stop illegal activity. The United Kingdom licensing system covering the import-- sale and production--of medicinal products is continually kept under review to ensure that appropriate safeguards against counterfeit products are maintained.
Ambulance Service
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list for each ambulance service (a) the proportion of ambulance service responses which are a
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result of doctors' urgent calls, (b) the average response time for such calls and (c) the targets she has set for response times ; and if she will make a statement.Mr. Sackville : Urgent calls for an ambulance may be made by people other than doctors--for example, expectant mothers. Information on urgent patient journeys does not distinguish between types of caller. The proportion of patient journeys classified as urgent is set out in the table for each ambulance authority in England. Information on average response times for urgent calls is not available centrally. Ninety-five per cent. of urgent responses should arrive at the hospital within 15 minutes of the time agreed between the doctor and the ambulance authority.
Ambulance services 1991-92 England
Urgent patient journeys as a proportion of all patient journeys<1>
|Total patient |Urgent patient |Urgent journeys as
|journeys |journeys |proportion of total
|(thousands) |(thousands) |journeys
|(percentage)
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Non-metropolitan authorities
Cleveland |216.0 |24.2 |11
Cumbria |250.0 |14.0 |6
Durham |332.6 |14.4 |4
Humberside |417.9 |22.6 |5
North Yorkshire 274.1 21.5 8
Derbyshire |318.1 |23.7 |7
Leicestershire |290.6 |26.0 |9
Lincolnshire (NHS Trust) 190.0 18.5 10
Nottinghamshire 443.0 25.3 6
Cambridgeshire |272.8 |11.9 |4
Norfolk
(NHS Trust) |304.1 |20.9 |7
Suffolk |264.0 |10.2 |4
Bedfordshire |148.8 |9.3 |6
Hertfordshire |189.9 |15.5 |8
Essex |550.1 |27.3 |5
East Sussex |393.7 |20.0 |5
Kent |352.9 |29.1 |8
Surrey |437.4 |18.8 |4
West Sussex |267.1 |15.0 |6
Dorset |322.5 |19.5 |6
Hampshire |212.7 |30.6 |14
Wiltshire |276.6 |16.3 |6
Isle of Wight |45.8 |2.8 |6
Berkshire |190.1 |12.8 |7
Buckinghamshire 167.7 11.5 7
Northamptonshire 160.1 14.0 9
Oxfordshire |181.5 |10.4 |6
Avon |308.5 |23.2 |8
Cornwall and
Isles of Scilly
(NHS Trust) |107.6 |13.8 |13
Devon |574.8 |32.8 |6
Gloucestershire |185.7 |14.4 |8
Somerset |172.3 |14.1 |8
Hereford and
Worcestershire 216.9 14.5 7
Shropshire |93.6 |11.3 |12
Staffordshire |305.6 |20.4 |7
Warwickshire |96.2 |16.7 |17
Cheshire |243.2 |21.5 |9
Lancashire |528.8 |30.9 |6
Metropolitan authorities
Northumbria Met
(NHS Trust) |764.2 |53.1 |7
West Yorkshire Met 1,048.3 63.5 6
South Yorkshire Met 578.5 33.1 6
London Ambulance Service 1,639.5 76.6 5
West Midlands Met 762.8 86.4 11
Mersey Met |701.5 |38.4 |5
Greater Manchester Met 1,067.6 70.0 7
<1> Figures are provisional
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NHS Administration
Sir Michael Grylls : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what are the total numbers of staff employed in each of the various management/administrator grades of the national health service ; and what were the comparable numbers and grades of administrators employed in each year since 1975.
Dr. Mawhinney [holding answer 10 March 1993] : The information is not available centrally in the form requested. The total numbers of staff employed in administrative and clerical grades and the total numbers of general and senior managers are given in the table. Management still accounts for less than 1.7 per cent. of the national health service work force.
|Administrative and|General/Senior
|clerical<1> |managers<2>
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1975 |91,870 |-
1976 |98,510 |-
1977 |99,040 |-
1978 |100,300 |-
1979 |102,960 |-
1980 |105,430 |-
1981 |108,800 |-
1982 |108,800 |-
1983 |109,970 |-
1984 |110,300 |-
1985 |110,940 |110
1986 |110,840 |510
1987 |113,900 |700
1988 |114,720 |1,240
1989 |116,840 |4,610
1990 |120,040 |9,680
1991<3> |127,370 |13,340
<1> All figures are for England, are in whole-time eqivalents and are
rounded to the nearest 10.
<2> General and senior managers were introduced in phases from 1985
following the Griffiths report (1983).
<3> Includes staff in the NHS trusts.
DEFENCE
Redundant Personnel (Rents)
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the average level of rents payable in England by redundant service personnel remaining in married quarters.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : Redundant service personnel pay the appropriate quartering charge for the type and grade of quarter occupied until they leave the service. After leaving the service they pay a market rent appropriate to the size of the property and the locality. Calculating the average amount payable could be done only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Properties
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many of his Department's former properties have been leased by local authorities for each year from 1979 to 1993.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : Details of married quarters leased to other organisations have only been collected centrally since 1986. As at 31 March of each year the following properties were on lease to local authorities.
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