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Sea Harriers

Mr. Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many Sea Harriers are in storage; and what plans he has for the disposal of Sea Harriers. [120873]

Mr. Ingram: There are currently no Sea Harrier aircraft in storage. Aircraft being withdrawn from service are being used for spares recovery before being disposed of through the Disposal Services Agency. In

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the future some of the aircraft may be retained for ground-instructional use while others may be used as gate guardians at Service bases or offered to museums.

Service Manning

Mr. Keetch: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the establishment of (a) doctors by speciality, (b) nurses and (c) technicians required by (i) field hospitals of the TA AMS, (ii) medical squadrons of the TA AMS and (iii) TA AMS specialist units, stating in each case the number of (A) doctors by speciality, (B) nurses and (C) technicians serving in each category; and if he will make a statement. [118810]

Mr. Caplin [holding answer 19 June 2003]: Overall recruiting and retention in the Territorial Army (TA) Army Medical Services (AMS) has improved over the past three years following a targeted advertising campaign in September 1999, and continuing this effort remains a priority. The information requested is detailed in the tables:

RAMC—Medical officer postsFigures as at 1 March 2003

		Ind Hosp		Fd Amb		Med Sqns		Specialists
Ser	Status/Profession	Est	Strength	Est	Strength	Est	Strength	Est	Strength
1	Medical Officer	140	136	42	38	29	24	33	23
2	Anaes and Resus Cons	80	31	0	0	4	3	35	14
3	Anaes and Resus (Neuro)	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
4	A&E Cons	50	6	0	0	1	2	10	2
5	Surgical Cons	20	14	0	0	4	0	20	9
6	Orthopaedic Surgeon	20	10	0	0	0	0	10	3
7	Burns and Plastics Cons	0	3	0	0	0	0	7	2
8	Neurosurgery	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	1
9	Surgeon Urology	0	3	0	0	0	0	2	3
10	Obs & Gynae	0	7	0	0	0	0	5	3
11	Otorhinolaringology	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	2
12	Medicine Cons	100	12	0	0	3	0	10	0
13	Opthalmologist	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
14	Neurologist	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
15	GU Med Cons	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
16	Cardiologist	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
17	Dermatologist	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
18	Gastroenterologist	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
19	Infectious Diseases	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
20	Respiratory Medicine	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
21	Renal Medicine	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
22	Public Health	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	1
23	Paediatrics	0	5	0	0	0	0	4	0
24	Rheum & Rehabilitation	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
25	Psychiatric Cons	20	5	4	0	0	0	7	3
26	Radiology Cons	20	3	0	0	0	0	5	1
27	Path Cons (Clin Chem)	10	3	0	0	0	0	3	0
28	Path Cons (Haem)	10	2	0	0	0	0	3	0
29	Path Cons (Micro—Bio)	10	2	0	0	0	0	3	1
30	Path Cons (Histiopath)	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
31	Med Offr NYQ	0	93	0	3	0	4	0	0
32	Total	480	339	46	42	41	33	203	71
33	Percentage Manned	71		91		80		35

		Amb Regt		Med Gp		Total
		Est	Strength	Est	Strength	Est	Strength
1	Medical Officer	1	1	0	0	245	222
2	Anaes and Resus Cons	0	0	0	0	119	48
3	Anaes and Resus (Neuro)	0	0	0	0	4	0
4	A&E Cons	0	0	0	0	61	10
5	Surgical Cons	0	0	0	0	44	23
6	Orthopaedic Surgeon	0	0	0	0	30	13
7	Burns and Plastics Cons	0	0	0	0	7	5
8	Neurosurgery	0	0	0	0	8	1
9	Surgeon Urology	0	0	0	0	2	6
10	Obs & Gynae	0	0	0	0	5	10
11	Otorhinolaringology	0	0	0	0	6	2
12	Medicine Cons	0	0	0	0	113	12
13	Opthalmologist	0	0	0	0	6	0
14	Neurologist	0	0	0	0	0	2
15	GU Med Cons	0	0	0	0	2	1
16	Cardiologist	0	0	0	0	2	0
17	Dermatologist	0	0	0	0	2	0
18	Gastroenterologist	0	0	0	0	2	1
19	Infectious Diseases	0	0	0	0	2	0
20	Respiratory Medicine	0	0	0	0	2	1
21	Renal Medicine	0	0	0	0	2	0
22	Public Health	0	0	0	0	4	2
23	Paediatrics	0	0	0	0	4	5
24	Rheum & Rehabilitation	0	0	0	0	2	1
25	Psychiatric Cons	0	0	0	0	31	8
26	Radiology Cons	0	0	0	0	25	4
27	Path Cons (Clin Chem)	0	0	0	0	13	3
28	Path Cons (Haem)	0	0	0	0	13	2
29	Path Cons (Micro—Bio)	0	0	0	0	13	3
30	Path Cons (Histiopath)	0	0	0	0	2	1
31	Med Offr NYQ	0	0	0	0	0	100
32	Total	1	1	0	0	771	486
33	Percentage Manned	100		0

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RAMC—Professions allied to medicine

		Ind Hosp		Fd Amb		Med Sqns		Specialists
Ser	Status/Profession	Est	Strength	Est	Strength	Est	Strength	Est	Strength
	Officer Posts
1	Tech Officer Rad	20	17	0	0	0	0	2	1
2	Tech Officer Lab	20	20	0	0	0	0	8	5
3	Environmental Health Offr	10	24	4	3	1	0	18	6
4	Pharmacist	20	23	0	0	0	0	12	3
5	Physiotherapist	80	64	0	1	0	0	11	3
6	PAM NYQ	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Sub Total	150	154	4	4	1	0	51	18
8	Percenrage Manned	103		100		0		35
	OR Posts
9	Radiographer	40	5	0	0	0	0	7	5
10	Lab Technician	70	21	0	0	0	0	26	4
11	Op Dept Prac	80	29	0	0	16	2	48	12
12	Sub Total	190	55	0	0	16	2	81	21
13	Percentage Manned	29	0	13	26
14	Total RAMC	340	209	4	4	17	2	132	39
15	Percentage Manned	61		100		12		30

			Amb Regt			Med Gp			Total
		Est	Strength	Est	Strength	Est	Strength
	Officer Posts
1	Tech Officer Rad	0	0	0	0	22	18
2	Tech Officer Lab	0	0	0	0	28	25
3	Environmental Health Offr	0	0	0	0	33	33
4	Pharmacist	0	0	0	0	32	26
5	Physiotherapist	0	0	0	0	91	68
6	PAM NYQ	0	0	0	0	0	6
7	Sub Total	0	0	0	0	206	176
8	Percentage Manned	0	0
	OR Posts
9	Radiographer	0	0	0	0	47	10
10	Lab Technician	0	0	0	0	96	25
11	Op Dept Prac	0	0	0	0	144	43
12	Sub Total	0	0	0	0	287	78
13	Percentage Manned	0	0
14	Total RAMC	0	0	0	0	480	254
15	Percentage Manned	0	0	0

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QARANC—Nursing posts

Ser	Status/Profession	Ind Hosp		Fd Amb		Med Sqns		Specialists
(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)	(e)	(f)	(g)	(h)	(i)	(j)
	Officer posts
1	OC & 2i/c Nursing Sqn	20	17	0	0	0	0	2	2
2	RGN (Adult)	1,230	604	26	29	22	31	117	113
3	Theatre Sister (ENB 183)	40	49	0	0	0	0	23	9
4	A&E (ENB 199)	140	90	0	0	0	0	14	5
5	ITU (ENB 100)	220	85	0	0	0	0	22	11
6	Orthopaedic (ENB 219)	100	24	0	0	0	0	10	4
7	Gynaecology (ENB 225)	20	3	0	0	0	0	2	0
8	GU Med (ENB 276)	40	9	0	0	0	0	4	1
9	Burns (ENB 264)	40	11	0	0	0	0	10	3
10	Neurosurgical (ENB 148)	20	9	0	0	0	0	2	1
11	Opthalmology (ENB 346)	20	3	0	0	0	0	4	2
12	Registered Midwife	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
13	RSCN	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	1
14	Community Psych Nurse	40	32	8	2	0	0	4	3
15	RMN	40	50	4	2	0	0	9	8
16	NO NYQ	0	75	0	3	0	4	0	2
17	Sub total	1,970	1,061	38	36	22	35	295	165
18	Percentage manned	54		95		159		56
	OR Posts
19	RGN (Adult)	0	0	0	0	17	5	1	1
20	Sub total	0	0	0	0	17	5	1	1
21	Percentage manned	0		0		29		100
	Total OR and Officer posts
22	Total	1,970	1,061	38	36	39	40	296	166
23	Percentage manned	54		95		103		56

			Amb Regt			Med Gp		Liab	Str
		(k)	(l)	(m)	(n)	(o)	(p)
	Officer Posts
1	OC & 2i/c Nursing Sqn	0	0	0	0	22	19
2	RGN (Adult)	0	0	0	0	1,455	777
3	Theatre Sister (ENB 183)	0	0	0	0	63	58
4	A&E (ENB 199)	0	0	0	0	154	95
5	ITU (ENB 100)	0	0	0		242	96
6	Orthopaedic (ENB 219)	0	0	0		110	28
7	Gynaecology (ENB 225)	0	0	0		22	3
8	GU Med (ENB 276)	0	0	0		44	10
9	Burns (ENB 264)	0	0	0		50	14
10	Neurosurgical (ENB 148)	0	0	0		22	10
11	Opthalmology (ENB 346)	0	0	0		24	5
12	Registered Midwife	0	0	0		6	0
13	RSCN	0	0	0		6	1
14	Community Psych Nurse	0	0	0		52	37
15	RMN	0	0	0		53	60
16	NO NYQ	0	0	0		0	84
17	Sub total	0	0	0	0	2,325	1,297
18	Percentage manned	0		0
	OR Posts
19	RGN (Adult)	0	0	0	0	18	6
20	Sub total	0	0	0	0	18	6
21	Percentage manned	0		0
	Total OR and Officer posts
22	Total	0	0	0	0	2,343	1,303
23	Percentage manned	0		0

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