HC Deb 30 April 1973 vol 855 cc254-5W
Mr. Bidwell

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give such figures as are available of recruitment of hospital staff from new Commonwealth countries for each year beginning with 1960 by job, profession or occupation, and giving the figures for National Health Service hospitals separately.

Sir K. Joseph

The information centrally available is based on numbers in post and not on numbers recruited each year and is limited to the following categories of staff and to the National Health Service: —

DOCTORS
Number in post in National Health Service hospitals in Great Britain at 31th -September who were born in the new Commonwealth.
1960–64 Not available
1965 4,429
1966 5,074
1967 5,590
1968 6,376
1969 6,812
1970 6,951
1971 Not yet available

STUDENT NURSES, PUPIL NURSES AND PUPIL MIDWIVES
Number in post in National Health Service hospitals in England and Wales at 31st December who were born in the new Commonwealth.
1960 Not available
1961 9,488
1962 11,306
1963 11,475
1964 12,275
1965 13,288
1966 14,389
1967 15,082
1968 14,047
1969 15,031
1970 16,019
1971 15,375
1972 Not yet available

Not all of the above were overseas when they applied to join the National Health Service.