§ Mr. CotterTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many school nurses have been employed by each health authority in England in each of the last five years. [18712]
§ Mr. MilburnThe information requested is not available for 1995 and 1996. Information for 1992 to 1994 will be placed in the Library.
The information placed in the Library is taken from the Department of Health's annual non-medical work force census. School nurses are not separately identifiable from other community nursing staff after the 1994 non-medical work force census because of the introduction of a new, simpler set of occupation codes used to classify non-medical staff.