HC Deb 22 September 1971 vol 823 cc9-10W
Mr. Carter-Jones

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will investigate the working of counselling services for the handicapped such as exist

many full-time and part-time gynaecologists are in practice in England and Wales.

Mr. Alison

The relevant available figures relate to National Health Service hospital doctors in the speciality of gynaecology and obstetrics as a whole. The numbers at 30th September, 1970, the latest date for which this information is available were as follows:

in the United States of America and other countries, details of which have been sent to him, with a view to setting up similar services in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Alison

I have written to the hon. Member.