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Health Staff
Ms Primarolo : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many (a) district nurses, (b) community midwives, (c) health visitors, (d) community psychiatric nurses and (e) practice nurses were employed in the NHS in Scotland in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 7 June 1993] : The information requested is shown in the table :
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There are also |1988 |1989 |1990 |1991 |1992 combined duty staff as below ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Health visitor/district nurse |3.0 |3.0 |7.0 |31.9 |30.2 Health visitor/district nurse-community midwife |121.3 |113.7 |114.7 |134.2 |127.7 District nurse/community midwife |447.7 |438.3 |415.3 |359.8 |350.7 Health visitor/community midwife |15.0 |19.0 |23.3 |39.0 |38.1
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There are also |1988 |1989 |1990 |1991 |1992 combined duty staff as below ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Health visitor/district nurse |3.0 |3.0 |7.0 |31.9 |30.2 Health visitor/district nurse-community midwife |121.3 |113.7 |114.7 |134.2 |127.7 District nurse/community midwife |447.7 |438.3 |415.3 |359.8 |350.7 Health visitor/community midwife |15.0 |19.0 |23.3 |39.0 |38.1
Enterprise Zones
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many jobs have been (a) created and (b) lost in each of the enterprise zones on an annual basis ; and how many jobs were lost in the area of each enterprise zone in each of the three years before its creation.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 8 June 1993] : Comprehensive information on job losses and redundancies is not held centrally. The information on jobs created and lost on enterprise zones is not available in the form
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requested. However, following is the information available on net job creation in each of the Scottish enterprise zones (and which takes account of job losses in the zone) :
Enterprise zone |Date of designation|Estimated net job
|creation since
|designation
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Clydebank |August 1981 |3,700
Invergordon |October 1983 |700
Tayside |January 1984 |3,700
Inverclyde |March 1989 |<1>800
<1> Revised figure based on recent survey of businesses. Includes 76 which were
in the zone at the date of its establishment; excludes jobs expected to be
created by Mimtec Services Ltd at Faulds Park.
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Cervical Cancer
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many women aged (a) 20 to 40 years, (b) 41 to 60 years and (c) 61 years and over (i) have had cervical
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cancer diagnosed, (ii) have died from cervical cancer and (iii) have undergone treatment and survived, in each of the past seven years.Mr. Lang [holding answer 8 June 1993] : The information requested is detailed in the table :
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Cancer of the cervix in Scotland
Year |All registrations |Hospital |Deaths |One-year survival |Three-year survival
|registrations |rate |rate
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Age <40 |129 |129 |24 |0.93 |0.85
1985 |129 |129 |31 |0.94 |0-80
1986 |120 |120 |23 |0.98 |0.83
1987 |144 |143 |30 |0.89 |0.78
1988 |88 |11 |0.91 |-
1989 |134 |134 |5 |- |-
1990 |127 |127 |- |- |-
Age 40-59
1985 |150 |150 |58 |0.83 |0.66
1986 |158 |158 |59 |0.85 |0.70
1987 |159 |158 |53 |0.82 |0.69
1988 |176 |175 |44 |0.87 |0.73
1989 |142 |140 |33 |0.79 |-
1990 |187 |186 |4 |- |-
1991 |175 |173 |- |- |-
Age 60+
1985 |163 |155 |100 |0.63 |0.41
1986 |179 |177 |112 |0.66 |0.42
1987 |182 |180 |108 |0.61 |0.41
1988 |139 |135 |78 |0.61 |0.39
1989 |146 |139 |56 |0.68 |-
1990 |169 |167 |41 |- |-
1991 |151 |148 |- |- |-
Notes:
Cancer of the cervix (ICD-9 180<1>) in Scotland: numbers of new cases registered, numbers of cases registered from hospital records<2>,
numbers of deaths up to 31 December 1990 and one and three year survival rates<3> by age and year treatment commenced.
<1> International Classification of Diseases Ninth Revision-Code 180.
<2> Most registrations are made on the basis of medical records or pathology reports. Selecting cases registered from hospital records
excludes a small number of cases notified to the registration system only at the time of death. Most of the such cases will be of persons,
usually elderly, who were not treated.
<3> The survival rates were calculated using the life table' method and represent the proportions of survivors at the first and third
anniversary of the date treatment commenced.
Passive Smoking
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what statutory provisions govern the extent to which, or means by which, a person can sue for damages or compensation for illnesses caused by passive smoking in the workplace ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 8 June 1993] : There are no statutory provisions expressly dealing with illnesses caused
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by passive smoking in the workplace. However, regulation 6 of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, section 4 of the Factories Act 1961 and section 7 of the Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 make provision for the ventilation of workplaces. Regulation 25(3) of the 1992 regulations also deals with the provision of suitable arrangements in rest rooms and rest areas to protect non-smokers from discomfort caused by tobacco smoke. Breaches of duty under these provisions are actionable in so far as they cause damage.
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