NHS Expenditure

HC Deb 19 January 1995 vol 252 cc639-40W

Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 9 December 1994, Official Report, column 401, on NHS expenditure, how much has been spent on private psychiatric care in each year since 1991–92.

Mr. Sackville

This information is not available centrally.

Table 1: Nursing and Midwifery staff by qualification (excluding agency staff and Projected 2000 students) England as at 30 September each year
whole-time equivalents
	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987
Total nurses and midwives	388,010	394,040	394,680	393,740	397,030	397,240	397,910
Qualified	212,100	219,300	223,310	227,740	234,130	236,770	239,360
Unqualified	95,410	94,190	92,510	90,160	91,640	92,250	93,980
Learners	80,510	80,560	78,860	75,850	71,160	68,220	64,560
Unknown	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

whole-time equivalents
	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993
Total nurses and midwives	397,650	398,050	395,360	392,200	378,790	361,460
Qualified	241,780	244,220	242,340	243,250	246,570	241,850