§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the number of redundancies among national health service staff(a) by grade and (b) by reason for each of the last five years.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonStatistics on redundancies in the NHS in Scotland are not collected centrally other than in respect of staff who are both over 50 years of age and have at least five years' reckonable service for superannuation purposes where a benefit is immediately payable under the NHS (Compensation for Premature Retirement) (Scotland) Regulations 1981. The total number of such premature retirement awards for he last five years is as follows: