§ Mr. McNamaraTo ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his answer of 30 June 2003,Official Report, column 141W, on ethnic minority staff, if he will require national health service trusts to give information on the ethnicity of hospital and community medical and hospital dental staff when making their six-month reports on suspensions. [128706]
§ Mr. Hutton[holding answer 18 September 2003]: The Department will start to collect information on the ethnicity of hospital and community medical and dental staff as part of the routine data collection exercise on long term suspension as soon as practicable.