§ Mr. Robert Banksasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will set out the current figure for the number of administrators employed in the National Health Service compared with the figures for each of the last 10 years.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeI refer my hon. Friend to my reply of 3 November 1983 to my hon. Friend the Member for Halifax (Mr. Galley), at column462, which gives the number of staff in the NHS, by staff group, at 30 September each year from 1973 to 1982. Provisional figures for 1983 have been placed in the Library.