Mrs. HicksTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what difficulties are being experienced in the recruitment of trained speech therapists in(a) Wolverhampton and (b) the rest of the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. NewtonInformation on the recruitment of speech therapists is not collected centrally. The position in a 461W particular district is a matter for the district health authority. Numbers of speech therapists in post in the NHS nationally have been increasing by about 8 per cent. on average per year.