HC Deb 02 November 1998 vol 318 c416W
Mr. Viggers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many midwives have(a) joined and (b) left the National Health Service during each of the last two years. [57596]

Mr. Milburn

Figures on vacancies for nurses and midwives are collected by the Office of Manpower and Economics and published in the annual reports of the Review Body for Nursing Staff, Midwives, Health Visitors and Professions Allied to Medicine, copies of which are available in the Library.