HC Deb 23 June 1994 vol 245 c298W
Mr. Straw

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what proportion of(a) chairmen, (b) chief executives and (c) board members of (i) regional health authorities, (ii) district health authorities and (iii) NHS trusts are women.

Dr. Mawhinney

The latest information available centrally is given in the table.

Chairman and non-executive appointees
Number of women appointed Women as a percentage of total appointees
Regional health authorities
Chairmen 1 12.5
Non-executive members 19 47.5
District health authorities
Chairmen 26 24.1
Non-executive members 228 38.4
NHS Trusts
Chairmen 104 26.0
Non-executive directors 795 40.4

Information about the number of female chief executives employed is not available centrally.

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