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NHS Pay

Mark Durkan: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of health service staff in England have been (a) notified of their pay band under Agenda for Change and (b) assimilated into the new pay structures. [114429]

Ms Rosie Winterton: From the centrally available data, as at the end of March 2006, 99 per cent. of staff, excluding foundation trusts, had been notified of their pay band under agenda for change and had been assimilated onto the new pay system. Central monitoring was then suspended, except for trusts, excluding Foundation Trusts, where 100 or more staff remain to be assimilated. In these trusts it is estimated that fewer than 400 staff remain to be assimilated.


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NHS Redundancies

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many chief executives of (a) regional health authorities and (b) strategic health authorities renewed cars provided by their employers within two years before being made redundant since 1996; what the cost to the public purse was of providing such cars; how many such cars were purchased by employees when they were made redundant; and how much revenue was received as a result of those purchases. [115123]

Ms Rosie Winterton: This information is not held centrally by the Department. This is a matter for the individuals and their respective employers.

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many chief executives of (a) regional health authorities and (b) strategic health authorities were given pay rises within two years before being made redundant since 1996; and what average percentage increase was awarded in such cases. [115124]

Ms Rosie Winterton: National health service organisations are public bodies and as such, the pay of their senior executive teams is a matter of public record, published in their annual accounts.

The Department advises NHS organisations on the maximum level of annual pay uplifts for NHS senior managers.

NHS Service Level Changes

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of whether
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NHS service level changes have disproportionately affected services that do not yet have a tariff set. [103640]

Andy Burnham: Any changes, or proposed changes, to services are a matter for the national health service locally. We would expect a whole range of factors to be taken into consideration in such circumstances.

Hospitals are paid for payment by results activity at national tariff. Funding for services outside the scope of payment by results continues to be agreed locally with commissioners.

NHS Treatment: Foreign Nationals

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) foreign nationals and (b) other EU citizens were treated on the NHS in the latest year for which figures are available; and what the cost was to the NHS in that year. [115521]

Ms Rosie Winterton: It is not possible to provide the information requested. Successive Governments have not required the NHS to provide statistics on the number of foreign nationals seen, treated or charged under the provisions of the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989, as amended, nor any costs involved.

NHS Work Force

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) headcount and (b) full-time equivalent size of the overall NHS work force was in each year since 1979. [115000]

Ms Rosie Winterton: This information is shown in the following tables:


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Numbers (headcount)
England All NHS staff All NHS doctors HCHS medical and dental staff( 1) General medical practitioners( 2) GP practice staff( 3) HCHS non medical staff( 4)

1979

n/a

65,442

42,380

23,062

n/a

n/a

1980

n/a

66,997

43,323

23,674

37,400

n/a

1981

n/a

68,479

44,120

24,359

39,200

n/a

1982

1,034,750

69,493

44,658

24,835

41,400

923,857

1983

1,046,975

70,807

45,466

25,341

44,200

931,968

1984

1,040,642

71,162

45,374

25,788

46,700

922,780

1985

1,039,952

72,101

45,911

26,190

49,300

918,551

1986

1,031,934

72,731

46,202

26,529

52,100

907,103

1987

1,036,587

73,244

46,221

27,023

52,700

910,643

1988

1,036,852

74,560

47,140

27,420

57,200

905,092

1989

1,050,383

76,101

48,352

27,749

62,200

912,082

1990

1,041,193

77,354

49,831

27,523

73,952

889,887

1991

n/a

78,160

50,273

27,887

77,196

n/a

1992

n/a

79,232

51,047

28,185

80,213

n/a

1993

1,051,427

80,738

52,278

28,460

84,185

886,504

1994

1,038,737

81,319

52,584

28,735

84,211

873,207

1995

1,052,428

84,459

55,590

28,869

97,794

870,175

1996

1,056,501

86,584

57,468

29,116

97,379

872,538

1997

1,058,686

89,619

60,230

29,389

100,047

869,020

1998

1,071,562

91,837

62,140

29,697

100,975

878,750

1999

1,097,376

93,981

63,994

29,987

105,828

897,567

2000

1,117,841

96,319

66,067

30,252

102,270

919,252

2001

1,166,016

99,169

68,484

30,685

104,319

962,528

2002

1,223,824

103,350

72,168

31,182

107,275

1,013,199

2003

1,282,930

108,993

76,400

32,593

110,091

1,063,846

2004

1,331,087

117,036

82,951

34,085

112,254

1,101,797

2005

1,365,388

122,345

87,043

35,302

112,094

1,130,949

n/a = not available
(1) Excludes medical hospital practitioners and medical clinical assistants, most of whom are also GPs that work part time in hospitals.
(2) Excluding retainers. GP retainers were first collected in 1999 and are omitted for comparability purposes.
(3) Practice staff headcount data are rounded to the nearest hundred for 1980 to 1989, figures for 1990 onwards are unrounded.
(4) A new system of occupation coding for NHS non-medical staff was introduced in 1995. Figures for 1994 and earlier are not directly comparable with later years.

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