§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will place in the Library figures(a) by district health board and (b) overall, of the number of operations cancelled on the day of, or the day after, admission to hospital, and the number of those patients not readmitted within a month, for each quarter of 1995–96 and the first two quarters of 1996–97, as available. [11620]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonInformation on cancellations of operations following admission is not held centrally at the level of detail requested. Total figures for cancellations of planned admissions for in-patient and day case treatment are given in the table. Information on cancellations of hospital admissions is published annually in the NHS in Scotland annual report, copies of which have been placed in the Library.
All permanent staff at grade 7 and above in the Scottish Office and its executive agencies at 1 April 1996 Unified grade Group SCS1 Grade 6 Grade 7 Scottish Office Pensions Agency — 1.0 3.0 Student Awards Agency for Scotland 1.0 — — Scottish Office total (excluding SPS) 149.4 174.0 388.2 Scottish Prisons Service2 7 — 3 1 SCS = Senior Civil Service. 2 SPS figures available as headcount only.