§ Mr. Norman HoggTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the latest figures for the number of agency staff supplied to the National Health Service in the following categories:(a) nurses, (b) midwives, (c) professional and technical staff (excluding works staff), (d) works professional staff, (e) administrative and clerical staff, (f) ambulance officers and control assistants and (g) other staff, indicating their distribution by health board; what payments in fees has been made by each board to each of these groups over the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythInformation is held centrally only for agency nurses and midwives and ambulance officers and control assistants. No agency ambulance officers and control assistants are employed. The table shows the average daily number of qualified nurses and midwives, by whole-time equivalent, supplied by agencies to health boards in Scotland during the year ended 30 September 1987. No information is available centrally about payments made for agency staff.
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Midwives Other qualified nurses SCOTLAND 0.8 202.1 Argyll and Clyde — — Ayrshire and Arran — 5.8 Borders 0.3 2.9 Dumfries and Galloway — — Fife — — Forth Valley — — Grampian — 2.6 Greater Glasgow — 132.7
Midwives Other qualified nurses Highland — — Lanarkshire — — Lothian 0.3 57.5 Orkney 0.2 — Shetland — 0.6 Tayside — — Western Isles — —