HC Deb 10 July 1985 vol 82 cc457-8W
Mr. Hume

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland why the Chief Medical Officer for Northern Ireland has discontinued the publication of an annual report on the state of public health in Northern Ireland.

Mr. Chris Patten

The Chief Medical Officer for Northern Ireland does not publish a report on the state of

Mr. Younger

[pursuant to his reply, 4 July 1985, c. 251]: Estimates of the number of female part-time employees in employment in Scotland in each of the major sectors of such employment for each of the last five years are set out in the table; the estimates for 1982, 1983 and 1984 are provisional. Estimates for part-time male employment are available only for 1981.

public health in Northern Ireland. The annual report of the Department of Health and Social Services contains such information and a further report covering the period 1 January 1980 to 31 December 1982 is due to be published later this year.