§ Mr. LathamTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department intends to take to improve morale and pay prospects for medical physicists working in the National Health Service; and what recent representations he has received from the Institute of Physical Sciences in Medicine in that regard.
§ Mr. MellorThe management side of the Scientific and Professional Staffs Council has set up a working party to investigate the scale of reported problems of recruitment and retention of medical physicists and other scientists. I have received no recent representations from the Institute of Physical Sciences in Medicine about these matters.
§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if the Yorkshire regional health authority has sought the opinion of district health authorities within the region regarding the implementation of cook-chill catering.
§ Mr. FreemanYes. It consulted on a strategy document between 25 March and 30 June last year.