§ Miss Emma NicholsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the change, in absolute and percentage terms, in midwifery staff in the United Kingdom since 1979.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyBetween September 1979 and 1990 the total number of midwifery staff, including student midwives, employed in the NHS in England increased by 3,620 wholetime equivalents—an increase of 18 per cent.
Information relating to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland is a matter for my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Wales, for Scotland and for Northern Ireland.