asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will publish in the Official Report the number of people engaged in administration employed by (a) Cambridgeshire area health authority, (b) Norfolk area health authority, and (c) nationally in each of the last six years; and whether he will express figures (a) and (b) as a percentage of the total number of persons employed by those authorities and the figure (c) as a percentage of those under the control of his department.
[pursuant to his reply, 27 March 1980, c. 652]: The information requested is given below. National Health Service staff are not directly controlled by the Department; total NHS manpower is given for comparison. Information prior to 1976 is not readily available and could not be produced except at disproportionate cost.
| WHOLE TIME EQUIVALENTS | |||||||||
| CAMBRIDGE AREA HEALTH AUTHORITY (T) | NORFOLK AREA HEALTH AUTHORITY | ENGLAND | |||||||
Administrative* and Clerical Staff
| All NHS†‡ Manpower
| Percentage
| Administrative* and Clerical Staff
| All NHS Percentage
| Percentage
| Administrative* and Clerical Staff
| All NHS†‡ Manpower
| Percentage
| |
| 1976 | 1,120 | 8,130 | 13·8 | 1,230 | 10,450 | 11·8 | 98,510 | 788,600 | 12·5 |
| 1977 | 1,110 | 8,620 | 12·9 | 1,250 | 10,590 | 11·8 | 99,040 | 792,840 | 12·5 |
| 1978 | 1,090 | 8,630 | 12·6 | 1,270 | 10,780 | 11·8 | 100,300 | 805,070 | 12·5 |
Notes:
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| * Excludes ambulance officers | |||||||||
| † Includes numbers of independent contractors and whole time equivalents of staff directly employed by the relevant NHS authorities. The staff covered are defined in table 3.2 of the Health and Personal Social Services Statistics for England volume 1978, a copy of which is in the House of Commons Library. | |||||||||
| ‡ In addition to the staff identified in note 2 above the total includes general practice pharmacy contractors. | |||||||||