§ Mr. Berminghamasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list for each regional and district health authority the difference between money allocated for nurses' pay in 1987–88 and what steps he is taking to make up the shortfall.
§ Mr. NewtonThe cost of the review body awards for doctors, dentists, nurses, midwives and the professions allied to medicine in England will be £488 million in 1987–88. The Government have provided an additional £264 million towards that cost. Of the remainder, £200 million was covered in authorities' initial allocations for 1987–88 and £24 million will be met from their cost improvement programmes. The increased funding has not been apportioned between individual staff groups.
The additional £264 million has been allocated as follows:
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£ million Regional Health Authorities: Northern 16.8 Yorkshire 18.8 Trent 23.2 East Anglian 9.9
£ million North West Thames 18.8 North East Thames 23.8 South East Thames 20.9 South West Thames 17.0 Wessex 13.9 Oxford 10.9 South Western 16.5 West Midlands 26.7 Mersey 13.5 North Western 23.0 Regional Health Authorities total 253.7 Special Health Authorities and others 10.3 264.0 Allocations to district health authorities are a matter for regions.
§ Mr. Berminghamasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what steps he intends to take to assist health authorities to meet the cost of the ancillary workers' pay award.
§ Mr. NewtonNegotiations are continuing in the ancillary staffs Whitley council. Health authorities will be expected to meet the cost of any award from the allocations made to them by the Government, which of course include an allowance for inflation, and from their cost improvement programmes.