§ Mr. Hordernasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table giving the numbers of those employed as administrators and as clerical staff in the National Health Service for each year since 1964.
§ Mr. DeakinsThe information requested is as follows in respect of England for the period 1971–76. It is not possible to provide information in a comparable form for years prior to 1971, because of changes in the classification of staff and in the collection of the statistics. Nineteen seventy-seven figures are not yet available.
NHS Administrative and Clerical Staff as at 30 September Total whole-time equivalents 1971 … … … 70,396 1972 … … … 74,324 1973 … … … 77,108 1974 … … … 82,758 1975 … … … 91,865 1976 … … … 98,507