HC Deb 05 March 1987 vol 111 c669W
Mr. Key

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on university academic staff pay.

Mr. Kenneth Baker

I informed the House on 23 January at columns745–46 that the Government were willing to make available to the universities additional resources amounting to £40 million in 1987–88, £56 million in 1988–89 and £71 million in 1989–90 if a settlement could

Health Service Directly Employed Staff by Main Stuff Group—Great Britain1 as at 30 September
Whole-time equivalents
1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 Provisional 1986
Nursing and Midwifery23 437,600 453,200 478,400 485,000 485,500 486,000 490,800 492,300
Medical and Dental4 47,600 48,900 49,900 50,500 51,400 51,600 52,200 52,500
Professional and Technical5 72,100 74,200 77,900 80,300 82,100 86,800 88,800 90,300
Ancillary5 211,100 211,100 211,400 209,700 204,700 189,100 175,400 158,900
Administrative and Clerical 122,100 124,800 128,600 128,900 130,400 130,800 132,000 132,600
Maintenance 24,500 25,000 25,500 25,600 25,400 24,800 24,400 23,800
Works Professional 6,800 7,200 7,500 7,400 7,300 7,300 7,400 7,200
Ambulance (Including Officers) 20,200 20,900 21,400 21,600 21,700 21,400 21,600 22,600
Total Directly Employed Staff 942,000 965,200 1,000,600 1,009,000 1,008,500 997,900 992,600 980,700
Sources: DHSS Annual Censuses of Medical and Non-Medical Manpower; Welsh Office; Scottish Common Services Agency.
Notes:
1 Includes staff at the Dental Estimates Board, Prescription Pricing Authority, Welsh Health Common Services Authority, London Post-Graduate Special Health Authorities and Family Practitioner Committee staff on health authority pay rolls. Figures are independently rounded to the nearest 100 whole-time equivalents.
2 Includes agency staff.
3 Not adjusted for reduction in nurses' working hours in 1980 (from 40 to 37.5 hours per week).
4 Includes permanent paid, honorary and locum staff in hospitals and community health services, hospital practitioners and part-time medical/ dental officers (clinical assistants).
5 On 1.4.84 approximately 3,000 (wte) Operating Department Assistants were re-classified from the Ancillary to the Professional and Technical staff group. The figures have not been adjusted for this re-classification.