§ Mr. Bestasked the Secretary of State for Wales whether he will announce an increase in his cash limits to take account of the pay settlements following the recommendations of the National Health Service review bodies.
§ Mr. Mark RobinsonSubject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the cash limit for class XVII, vote 8 (Hospital and Community Health Services, etc. Wales) will be increased by £2,941,000 from £654,746,000 to £657,687,000. This increase should enable services to continue to be delivered and developed as planned following the decision to implement from 1 July 1986 the recommendations of the pay review bodies in respect of doctors, dentists, nurses, midwives and professionals allied to medicine, as announced by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 22 May. The increase will be charged to the reserve and therefore does not add to the public expenditure planning total.
246Worthopaedic house officers in Welsh hospitals and for all Welsh health authorities for 1976, 1979 and each successive year.
§ Mr. Nicholas EdwardsThe available information is given in the following table. It is not possible to provide figures for individual hospitals. Figures for 1976 are not available.
§ Mr. Nicholas EdwardsThe numbers of full-time and part-time pupils aged under five years in nursery schools, expressed as a percentage of the total three and four-year-old population in the years requested, are shown in the following table.