§ Mr. Hordernasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table showing the number of doctors, nurses, ancillary workers and administrators in 1950, 1960, 1970, and in each of the last five years to the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe following is the information requested:
the latest convenient date, and the proportion that these services represented of the annual current expenditure of the National Health Service in each of these years.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe figures for the five years ending on 31 March 1981 are set out in the following table:
The cost of the family practitioner services has been excluded in calculating the percentages.