HC Deb 09 March 1979 vol 963 cc854-5W
Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services when he expects to receive the doctors' and dentists' review body report on salaries; and whether he will give an assurance that the recommendations will be implemented in full.

Mr. Ennals

The independent Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration, chaired by Sir Ernest Woodroofe, is expected to submit a report to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister shortly. The Government have undertaken to implement review body recommendations except where there are clear and compelling reasons to the contrary, and I refer my hon. Friend to the reply my right hon. Friend gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Ormskirk (Mr. Kilroy-Silk) on 10 May accepting the review body's 1978 recommendations.—[Vol. 949, c. 500–1.]