HC Deb 29 April 1980 vol 983 cc433-4W
27 Miss Richardson

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what effect the salary levels recommended by the Clegg commission for the professions supplementary to medicine is likely to have on wastage rates among those al ready in the professions, and on the rate of recruitment.

Dr. Vaughan

Increases in pay averaging 154 per cent. over April 1979 levels should have a beneficial effect on recruitment and wastage, particularly since further increases in salary are also due to be negotiated as part of the 1980 pay round.

46 Mr. Flannery

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services why the Clegg commission, in preparing its report on National Health Service professions supplementary to medicine, did not carry out paragraph (IV) of its terms of reference, on consultation of the parties to the agreement on how the results of the comparisons of terms and conditions could be embodied in the relevant collective agreements.

Dr. Vaughan

The way in which the commission carried out this reference is a matter for the commission.