§ Mr. Stallardasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many trained chiropodists are employed by each local authority area; how many trained and untrained chiropodists are employed on an agency basis within the area of each local authority; and what number of full-time chiropodists each of these figures represent per 1,000 population over 65 years of age.
§ Mr. FairgrieveChiropodists are employed not by local authorities but by health boards. The numbers employed at September 1980—the latest available figures—are set out in the table following; all are fully trained. Information is not available centrally about chiropodists providing services under agency arrangements.
Health Board Number Employed* Rate per 1,000 Population over age 65 Argyll and Clyde 36 (31.6) 0.6 Ayrshire and Arran 35 (32.5) 0.7 Borders 1 (1.0) 0.1 Dumfries and Galloway 14 (12.1) 0.6 Fife 44 (37.8) 0.9 Forth Valley 20 (19.3) 0.6 Grampian 15 (13.3) 0.2 Greater Glasgow 80 (67.8) 0.5 Highland 11 (6.7) 0.4 Lanarkshire 41 (38.9) 0.7 Lothian 89 (75.3) 0.8 Orkney — — — Shetland 2 (2.0) 0.7 Tayside 42 (34.2) 0.7 Western Isles 2 (2.0) 0.3 SCOTLAND 432 (374.5) 0.6 *Full.time equivalents shown in brackets.