§ Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what steps have been taken to implement the Quirk committee recommendation for an energetic campaign to increase recruitment of speech therapists and to persuade married women to return to the profession; and if he will publish the total number of 422W unemployment benefit office. This was 22.6 per cent of the total such claimants. The figures includes 1,500 claimants whose entitlement to unemployment benefit had not yet been determined.
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Social Service how many of those unemployed in Wolverhamption have exhausted their right to unemployment benefit: what percentage of the unemployment total in Wolverhamption they represent: and what are the corresponding figures for the West Midlands and Great Britain as a whole.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe table below gives the information requested at 14 August 1980, the latest date for which figures are available.
speech therapists in post for each year since the Quick report.
§ Sir George YoungThe Quirk report invited schools of speech therapy in Great Britain to make a vigorous attempt to reach a target intake of 350 students per annum by 1982 at the latest. This target was achieved in 1977.
The whole-time equivalent number of speech therapists employed by English health authorities increased by 68 per cent. between 1972 and 1978, the latest year for which full returns are available, and numbers are continuing to rise towards the longer-term targets recommended by Quirk. The detailed figures for each year are as follows:
1972 820 1973 882 1974 983 1975 889 1976 1,132 1977 1,273 1978 1,376