§ Dr. CableTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish data on nursing vacancies in relation to full-time establishments in(a) each hospital trust and (b) each health authority and region. [66051]
§ Mr. DenhamThe information requested is not available centrally. For the information that is available on nursing vacancies up to March 1997, I refer the hon. Member to the 1998 annual report of the Review Body for Nursing Staff, Midwives, Health Visitors and Professions Allied to Medicine, copies of which are available in the Library.