asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people are in receipt of supplementary benefit through the local offices in the London borough of Lambeth.
the latest information on numbers of overseas-born doctors in practice in Great Britain
| TABLE 1 | ||
Year (Ending 30th September) | Number of Overseas-Born Doctors
| Increase
|
| 1969 | 16,900 | — |
| 1970 | 17,600 | 700 |
| 1971 | 17,900 | 300 |
| 1972 (estimate) | 18,700 | 800 |
| 1973 (estimate) | 19,800 | 1,100 |
| 1974 (provisional estimate) | 20,500 | 700 |
Table 2 gives the latest validated migration data for overseas-born doctors who are fully or provisionally registered.
| TABLE 2 | |||||
Year (Ending 30th September)
| Great Britain
| ||||
Inflow
| Outflow
| ||||
| 1969 | … | … | … | 2,100 | 880 |
| 1970 | … | … | … | 1,630 | 1,200 |
| 1971 | … | … | … | 1,450 | 1,480 |
| 1972 | … | … | … | 1,730 | 1,190 |
There are no comparable figures for overseas born doctors who are only temporarily registered but their inflow and outflow is of a similar order.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will set out in the Official Report the numbers of registered medical practitioners employed by the NHS on 31st March 1949 and 1973 and the number engaged in hospital work on 31st March 1974 and 31st March 1975.
Information in the form requested is not available. The following table 1 gives relates to England and Wales.
The four offices in the London borough of Lambeth were in May 1975 making regular payments of supplementary benefit to 19,985 persons. The territory served by those offices does not, however, coincide with the borough, and the number of supplementary benefit recipients resident in the borough is probably somewhat higher.