§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the salary of(a) a community health council secretary, (b) a hospital secretary and (c) a family practitioner committee administrator, or their equivalent grades for (i) 1974 and (ii) currently.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyCommunity health council secretaries are paid on grades and payscales negotiated in the administrative and clerical staffs Whitley council. It is for employing authorities to grade individual posts according to their particular range of responsibilities and activity. Information is not held centrally on individual posts, but the majority at 1 April 1974 were graded scale 9 (salary range £2,856 to £3,552 per annum) and from 1 April 1989 grade 6 in a new grading system (£11,962£13,994). Changes in NHS organisation and the introduction of general management mean that the posts of hospital secretary and family practitioner committee administrator have no equivalent in the current structure. I shall write to the hon. Member setting out past information on these posts and the nature of changes affecting them.