§ Mr. WilsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the number of speech therapists employed in each health board area indicating, in each case, any shortfall which exists.
§ Mr. StewartThe number, in whole-time equivalent terms, of qualified speech therapists employed in the national health service at 31 March 1993 in each health board area is given in the table. Details of the funded establishment for qualified speech therapists in each health board area are not held centrally.
Whole-time equivalent qualified speech therapists in the national health service in Scotland at 31 March 1993 Health board whole-time equivalents Argyll and Clyde 38.0 Ayrshire and Arran 31.5 Borders 13.5 Dumfries and Galloway 19.1 Fife 40.3 Forth Valley 21.4 Grampian 52.4 Greater Glasgow 83.1 Highland 23.6 Lanarkshire 44.3 Lothian 69.3 Orkney 2.5 Shetland 2.0 Tayside 39.7 Western Isles 5.7