§ Mr. SteenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health whether ambulance paramedics trained under local schemes such as that operated by Torbay health authority will qualify for the £500 award.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyOnly staff with extended training to NHS training authority standard and required to use paramedical skills will be entitled to an additional payment of £500 a year under the terms of the management side's final offer. But the management side has also offered to discuss with the staff side recognition of staff with intermediate training with any payment agreed backdated to 1 April 1989.