§ Mr. FearnTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in theOfficial Report the number of consultants and junior doctors employed in each district health authority in England and Wales in each year since 1979 to the last date for which figures are available.
§ Mr. NewtonInformation is not collected centrally for all medical staff groups in the form requested. Information about doctors is collected by employing authorities, which for consultants are regional health authorities, district health authorities designated for undergraduate teaching purposes, and special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals; for senior registrars are regional health authorities and special health authorities only; and for other junior doctors are district health authorities and special health authorities. Because district health authorities were established only in 1982, comparable data about the staff groups mentioned are not available for the period requested. Information about medical staffing in each region at 30 September is published annually in "Hospital Medical Staff—England and Wales: Regional Tables", copies of which are in the Library.