§ Mr. CummingsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give the costs so far in redundancy and early retirement payments resulting from the privatisation of National Health Service ancillary services in the northern region.
§ Mr. MellorWe do not hold centrally records of National Health Service staff redundancies. The figures give the superannuation costs in each year since 1985/86 —the first for which figures are available—of premature retirements of ancillary staff within the Northern regional health authority as a result of competitive tendering.
£ 1985–86 100,874.41 1986–87 296,989.20 1987–88 358,729.94 11988–89 206,310.76 1 (April—November 1988).