Hospitals (Military Personnel) (Hansard, 27 February 1997)

§ Mr. Soames

This is a matter for the Defence Secondary Care Agency. I have asked the chief executive to write to the hon. Member.

General Government expenditure in Wales and the UK, 1994–95
	Wales	United Kingdom	Wales as percentage
	£ billion	Percentage share of GGE	£ billion	Percentage share of GGE	of UK
(i) Identifiable	12.3	78.7	219.6	74.3	5.6
of which:
Welsh Office	6.4	41.1
Social Security	5.1	32.9	89.2	30.2
(ii) Non-identifiable (estimated)	1.7	11.2	40.2	13.6	4.4
(iii) Other (estimated)	1.6	10.1	35.7	12.1	4.4
of which:
Debt interest	1.0	6.3	22.5	7.6
Total GGE (excluding privatisation
proceeds)	15.6	100.0	295.5	100.0	5.3
Privatisation proceeds	-0.3		-6.3		4.2
Total GGE (including privatisation
proceeds)	15.3		289.2		5.3
GDP (1994)					4.2
Population (1994)					5.0

Source:

Government Expenditure and Revenue—Wales, 1994–95.

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Letter from Mr. Ron Smith to Mr. Gordon Prentice, dated 27 February 1997: I am replying to your Question to the Secretary of State for Defence about the extent to which medically qualified military personnel are used in the NHS as this matter falls within my area of responsibility as Chief Executive of the Defence Secondary Care Agency (DSCA). Amongst the hospitals which comprise the DSCA, three Ministry of Defence Hospital Units (MDHUs) at Peterborough, Frimley Park near Camberley and Derriford, Plymouth are situated in NHS Trust hospitals. The MDHUs and their military staff are not separate from the civilian hospitals but fully integrated in the day-to-day business of patient care. A total of 504 medically qualified staff work in the MDHUs. In addition, a further 90 military medical personnel from the DSCA and other parts of the Defence Medical Services are currently seconded to NHS hospitals for specialist training.