§ Mr. Mackintoshasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what will be the cost in the current financial year of (a) payments to junior hospital doctors to meet the award for overtime payments, (b) payments to general practitioners for family planning services and (c) payments to hospital doctors for sterilisation operations; and what proportion of the total money available for the development of the NHS in 1976–77 will be absorbed by these three categories of payments.
§ Mr. MoyleThe information for England is as follows: (a) payments for Class A and B Units of Medical Time are estimated at about £25 million; (b) about £8½ million; (c) figures are not available centrally but payments are estimated total about £4 million. It is estimated that the additional expenditure on these services in 1976–77, as compared with 1975–76, will absorb about 18 per cent. of the planned increase in current expenditure on the NHS in 1976–77.