§ Mr. Moyleasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will fund the National Health Service without damaging patient services in order to ensure the maintenance of the traditional links between ancillary workers' pay and local authority manual workers' pay.
§ Dr. VaughanThe pay of NHS ancillary workers is a matter for negotiation by the Ancillary Staffs Whitley Council. So far as funding is concerned, I refer the right hon. Gentleman to the reply my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow) on 7 November.—[Vol. 991, c.671–2.]