§ Mr. Dickensasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will add medical laboratory scientific officers and clinical bio-chemists to those professions supplementary to medicine which were listed in his answer to the hon. Member for Warrington (Mr. Hoyle) on 29 April,Official Report, c. 336,as qualifying for the extra £81.9 million allocated for salary purposes.
§ Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg:No; the basis of the Government's judgment is the existence of a close and direct relationship with patients, comparable with that of nurses, which is traditionally reflected in pay. In the Government's view the two staff groups referred to by my hon. Friend do not have that relationship.