§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 9 May,Official Report, column 2, on vacant hospital consultancies, how many consultant posts were vacant in each region on 30 September 1992.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe information is shown in the table.
This indicates consultant vacancies notified to the Department as at 30 September 1992. As a snapshot of vacancies on a single date they may not fairly reflect the trend for the number of vacancies over the year as a whole.