§ Mr. Win GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions she has had in the last month with doctors, nurses and other health service staff on the next pay round.
§ Mr. MaloneThe Health Departments, and organisations representing doctors and dentists, nurses and midwives and staff in professions allied to medicine, have each recently presented evidence to the national health service review bodies about pay in 1995–96. Discussions are continuing in the nursing and midwifery staffs negotiating council, the professions allied to medicine and related grades of staff—professional and technical A—council and with the British Medical Association about local pay arrangements. Agreements have recently been reached in the Whitley councils for other staff which 195W include pay increases for 1994–95 together with an enabling provision for local pay schemes.