HC Deb 10 February 1992 vol 203 cc377-8W
Mr. Kennedy

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what studies have been conducted, or are under way, into the administrative workloads of doctors, nurses and clinical staff in the professions associated with medicine; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Hanley

No studies which specifically examine the administrative workloads of these staff groups have been undertaken, or are currently planned. However, manpower planning in units of management will address the duties of medical and nursing staff in reprofiling and skill mix exercises. The duties of junior doctors will also be scrutinised within the current initiative to reduce their hours.

schools—LMS—to every school in England, and will ensure that all schools have more freedom to run their own affairs. These are:

  1. (1) the approval of the remaining 12 inner London LEAs' schemes;
  2. (2) the approval of 60 LEA proposals for secondary schools to have their own bank accounts;
  3. (3) an exemption for most small schools from the competitive tendering requirements that apply to all LEAs;
  4. (4) confirmation that LMS schemes will extend to cover special schools.

These developments set the seal on the success of LMS. From 1 April, an LMS scheme will operate in each of the 109 LEAs in England.