HL Deb 26 January 1998 vol 585 c6WA
Baroness Cumberlege

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many local authority councillors have been appointed to NHS trust boards as chairman or non-executive directors since 1 May; how many of these were:

  1. (a) Labour councillors;
  2. (b) Conservative councillors;
  3. (c) Liberal Democrat councillors;
  4. (d) of other affiliations or none;
and to which NHS trusts were they appointed.

Baroness Jay of Paddington

Further to my oral Answer to Baroness Gardner of Parkes on 12 January [H.L. Deb., col. 833], the Secretary of State for Health intends to publish a full analysis of National Health Service trust appointments very shortly. I will let the noble Baroness have a copy as soon as it is available.