§ 93. Mr. Stodartasked the Minister of Health how many persons with the full qualifications recommended in the Tyler Report have been appointed to the posts of hospital engineer and group engineer, respectively, since the publication of that Report; how many appointments have been made to these posts of persons not carrying these qualifications; and how many vacancies for these posts exist at present.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonThe qualifications recommended by the Tyler Committee were incorporated in a Whitley agreement published in January, 1965. A special inquiry showed that up to 1st January, 1966, hospitals in England and18W Wales had by then appointed 24 Hospital Engineers and 12 Group Engineers with the prescribed qualifications and 13 Hospital Engineers and 5 Group Engineers without. Information after that date is available only for appointments of staff without the prescribed qualifications which require approval by my Department; of these there were 29 to Hospital Engineer posts and 9 to Group Engineer posts. Information about present vacancies is not available.