§ Mr. LansleyTo 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. HuttonRetirement 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 follows
1 April 2002 to 31 March 2003Consultant Pension Awards: 451Pension 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.