§ Mr. BeggsTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will provide an estimate of the cost of employing a project manager, commissioning engineer, commissioning nurse, and commissioning supplies officer to form the core of a commissioning team for the proposed Antrim area hospital.
§ Mr. NeedhamThe estimated cost of employing the core commissioning team at 1987–88 pay and prices levels is £95,150 a year. It is expected that the team will be required for approximately three years.
§ Mr. BeggsTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will provide details of the number of hospital beds available in hospitals in East Antrim, by hospital, for each of the past 10 years.
§ Mr. NeedhamThe available information is as follows:
employment; and how many of these employees are employed by employers from the United States of America.
§ Mr. ViggersInformation on full-time and part-time employment is obtained from the census of employment, held every three years. The most recent census results available relate to September 1984. At that time there were 392,925 full-time employees in employment in Northern Ireland. Numbers of full-time employees in United States-owned companies on a comparable basis to this figure are not available.