§ Mr. Pavittasked the Minister of Labour how many doctors are engaged full time in factories;how many are part time; and what is the number of appointed factory doctors.
§ Mr. GodberMy Department has no very recent figures of the numbers of doctors employed in factories. In 21W February, 1963, our records showed that 339 factories employed doctors full-time and 3,722 factories employed doctors part-time. There are at present 1,542 appointed factory doctors for districts and 1,475 doctors appointed for specific purposes.