§ Dr. McDonaldasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will direct the Basildon and Thurrock health authority to implement fully the decision of the appeals committee of the professional and technical staffs B council of Whitley councils for the health services (Great Britain) on 12 March 1982 that the work and responsibilities of Mr. Charles Oliver Lynch, chief medical laboratory scientific officer employed mainly in Orsett hospital, in the Basildon and Thurrock district of the Essex area health authority, are of a nature which warrants his regrading to senior chief medical laboratory scientific officer and that such regrading to be retrospective to 1 April 1974.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergThe decision of the appeals committee has been implemented to the extent that Mr. Lynch has received arrears of pay due to him in respect of the period from April 1974 until September 1982, when the health authority formally considered the outcome of the appeal. I understand that Mr. Lynch's position as regards his duties, grading and pay since September 1982 is to be considered by the health authority at its meeting on 17 March 1983. I think it right to await the outcome of that meeting before considering whether any action is necessary on the part of the Department.