§ Mr. Kennedyasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list in the Official Report the net financial effect in terms of budgetary savings which will have to be found from existing resources for each of the health boards in Scotland as a result of Her Majesty's Government's decision on the recommendations of the Review Body on Nurses and Midwives Pay.
§ Mr. John MacKayThe pay awards to NHS staff in Scotland covered by the recommendations of the Review Body for Nurses and Midwives will cost about £28.8 million in 1985–86. The cost to health boards will be some £6 million more than the amount allowed for inflation in their recurrent expenditure allocations for the year, equivalent to nearly 0.5 per cent. of their revenue budgets in total. Information about the precise costs of the award to each Board is not readily available.