§ 41. Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he proposes to make it his practice in future determinations of the pay of nurses and midwives to link increases to comparability studies such as those used by the Clegg Commission.
§ Dr. VaughanThe appropriate forum for negotiating the pay and conditions of service of nurses and midwives is the Nurses and Midwives Whitley Council. I have no proposals at present for relating the pay of nurses and midwives to comparability studies on a regular basis. I understand the Standing Commission on pay comparability intends to comment in a report later this year on the question of longer-term arrangements for groups438W such as nurses. I shall be ready to consider any views from the Whitley Council on the report by the commission.