§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many managers and senior managers there were within the NHS; and of those how many are there whose designation as such can be attributed solely to reclassification within the NHS, in each health authority and for Wales as a whole in each year since 1979.
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesI refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave him on numbers of managers on 21 February,Official Report, columns 89–91.
Information on the numbers of staff reclassified as managers is not in general readily available. However a special exercise in December 1993 provided some information on the number of staff now classified as managers who were previously employed at other grades within the same authority/trust. This information is shown in the following table. It is not known how many of these staff retained their previous responsibilities on transferring to manager grade and how many were promoted or took on new responsibilities.
Health authority area 1Per cent. Clwyd 79.0 East Dyfed 71.0 Gwent 77.0 Gwynedd 78.0 Mid Glamorgan 62.0 Pembrokeshire 100.0 Powys 85.0 South Glamorgan 77.0 West Glamorgan 80.0 WHCSA 58.0 Wales 73.0 1 Percentage of managers, at December 1993, who were previously employed at other grades within the same authority/trust. Notes:
1. Includes staff employed by health authorities, NHS trusts, Welsh health common services authority and those family health services authorities using the health authorities payroll system.
2. Managers employed on local payscales but who cannot be identified centrally as managers are excluded. This applies in particular to the Pembrokeshire NHS trust, where the figure quoted excludes all bar one employee.
3. Managers who were previously employed at other grades in other authorities/trusts but not their existing one are not generally counted as reclassified in the figures except where they transferred to an NHS trust from the health authority which had previously managed those services at the time the trust was created.