§ Mr. Carter-Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will indicate the numbers and names of the people who have rejected his invitation to serve on 290W the nursing pay review body; when he expects the pay review body to be established; when he expects it to report; if he will undertake to implement the report immediately; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeAppointments to the new pay review body for nursing and midwifery staff and the professions allied to medicine are, as has been the practice of all Governments in relation to review bodies, handled in confidence. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has already announced the appointment of Sir John Greenborough as Chairman and I expect the remaining members' appointment to be announced in the near future.
On the remainder of his question, I refer the hon. Member to my right hon. Friend the Prime minister's reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Sir H. Rossi) on 27 July 1983.—[Vol. 46, c. 461–2.]