HC Deb 22 April 2004 vol 420 c618W
Mr. Lansley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital consultants retired in the last quarter of(a) 2002c03 and (b) 2003–04. [165886]

Mr. Hutton

Retirement data in the format requested and figures for 2003–04 are not available. The number of consultants in England and Wales, who received a pension from the National Health Service Pension Scheme in the year to 31 March 2003, is shown as follows1 April 2002 to 31 March 2003 Consultant Pension Awards: 451

Pension scheme records are continually, and retrospectively, being updated to reflect further membership activity and revised data. This data extract therefore represents a snapshot in time as at August 2003.

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