HC Deb 25 February 2002 vol 380 c992W
David Wright

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent posts are planned for the staffing of the new strategic health authority covering Shropshire and Staffordshire. [34803]

Yvette Cooper

In accordance with the Shifting the Balance of Power Document "The Next Steps" paragraph 2.5.5, the staffing levels will be capped at 75 with costs of £4 million. The chief executives are in the process of putting together their franchise plans, in which actual staffing levels will be finalised.

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