§ Mr. Wm. Rossasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many senior nursing officers, nursing officers and secretarial staff to assist them have been appointed to new posts in each of the health and social services board areas in Northern Ireland in each of the last two years or, if more convenient, the last and present financial years to 31 December 1980; what is the cost of these posts in each such year in each board area; and how many comparable posts have disappeared in the same period.
§ Mr. John PattenThe information is as follows: