§ Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a table showing the gross earnings of a student nurse per month, and her net earnings after deduction of Income Tax, superannuation, National Insurance, board, &c., assuming the nurse to be single and 20 years of age; and what would be the net rate of pay per hour.
§ Mr. RossThe information requested is as follows:
287WIt is assumed that the duty hours are 84 a fortnight which include time spent on lectures and classes.
§ Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland What proportion of student nurses who enrolled in each of the last five years left before completing their training; and what proportion of each annual figure left to get married.
§ Mr. RossFigures are not available in the form requested as the index of student nurses kept by the General Nursing Council for Scotland was begun on 1st January, 1963. By 31st October, 1965, 7,383 student nurses had been indexed and 1,551 (21 per cent.) of these students had been withdrawn from the index before completion of training. 192 (12.4 per cent.) of those withdrawn from the index gave marriage as the reason for giving up training.