§ Ms. Richardsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will list (a) the amount of grant aid allocated by Government to each voluntary organisation devoted to women's health, for each year from 1974, (b) the percentage' increase or decrease in
662Wpractising in the National Health Service, (b) the number and percentage of women obstetricians practising in the National Health Service, (c) the number and percentage of part-time obstetricians practising in the National Health Service and (d) the number and percentage of women part-time obstetricians of the total of part-time obstetricians practising in the National Health Service since 1974.
§ Mrs. CurrieThe tables set out available data for England and Wales of doctors in the specialty of obstetrics and gynaecology. Data of the sex of part-time medical staff are not available prior to 1978 or for all grades. Table 2 includes part-time medical staff in the consultant, associate specialist, senior registrar and registrar grades.
Table 1 Hospital medical staff1 in obstetrics and gynaecology: showing number of staff, and number and percentage of female staff at 30 September each year England and Wales Females All Staff Number Per Cent. 1974 2,306 611 26.5 1975 2,426 613 25.3 1976 2,426 590 24.3 1977 2,466 626 25.4 1978 2,497 641 25.7 1979 2,518 691 27.4 1980 2,560 673 26.3 1981 2,616 718 27.4 1982 2,682 742 27.7 1983 2,709 735 27.1 1984 2,715 766 28.2 1985 2,733 832 30.4 1986 2,752 866 31.5 1 Including consultants and senior hospital medical officers with allowance, associate specialists, senior registrars, registrars, senior house officers and house officers. Government grants to these organisations, for each year from 1974 and (c) organisations which have ceased to receive Government grants from 1974 to date.
§ Mrs. CurrieThe information requested would be available only at disproportionate cost.
The following is a list of voluntary organisations funded by the Department in 1986–87 which are either 663W devoted to women's health and welfare, or of primary or particular interest to women, and of the amount of funding they received from the Department in 1986–87.
Voluntary organisations funded under Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 £ General Scheme Women's National Cancer Control Campaign 68,000 Women's Health Concern 7,000 Women's Therapy Centre 5,000 Widow's Advisory Trust 20,000 London Black Women's Health Action Group 3,750 Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development (FORWARD) 40,000 Mastectomy Association 6,000 Maternity Alliance 37,000 National Childbirth Trust 42,500 La Leche League of Great Britain 6,000 National Association for Maternal and Child Welfare 10,000 Miscarriage Association 2,274 Stillbirth and Neo-natal Death Associaton 22,000 Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths 10,000 National Women's Aids Federation 29,590 Rape Counselling and Research Project 22,000 Anorexic Family Aid 24,881 London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard (towards its telephone information service in relation to AIDS) 10,335 Central Funding Initiative for Services for Drug Misusers City Roads (to provide additional accommodation for women and children) 72,177 Coke Hole Trust (rehabilitation service)—mother and baby unit 10,963 Phoenix House, S. Tyneside Project (to provide a residential rehabilitation unit with special facilities for women and their families) 78,051 Tranx (National Tranquilliser Advice Centre) 20,300 The Department funds many other voluntary organisations whose work is of interest to both women and men, including a number of organisations working for young children.