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Welsh Office

Answer

Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what were the NHS salaries and wages costs for (a) administrative, clerical and management staff and (b) nurses and midwives in each financial year from 1989 to 1995 prices. [21085] Mr. Gwilym Jones: The information is contained in the following table: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. (a) (b) Administrative, clerical and management Nurses and midwives £000 £000 1988-89 86,869 438,480 1989-90 94,255 434,736 1990-91 103,547 433,982 1991-92 110,285 450,356 1992-93 125,594 457,093 1993-94 147,826 440,070 1994-95 153,156 444,644 1995-96 160,654 442,604 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Sources: Financial returns and annual accounts of district health authorities, NHS trusts, family health services authorities, the Health Promotion Authority for Wales and the Welsh Health Common Services Authority. Notes: 1. Information on salaries and wages costs for family health services authorities are not held centrally, and figures for nurses and midwives cannot be disaggregated from administrative and clerical costs. 2. These figures exclude the costs of GPs' administrative staff as the information was not separately collected. 3. The latest version of HM Treasury GDP deflators was used to uplift the figures to 1995 prices.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

292 c706-7W;292 c707-8W; 21085

Session

1996-97

Subjects

Health services Pay Managers Nurses Staff Midwives Wales Office workers

Contains statistics

Yes