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Mr. Hoyle
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many consultant posts there are; and how this compares with 1980.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke
The numbers of medical and dental consultant posts in the hospital service in England at 30 September 1984, and at the comparable date in 1980, are given in the following table.
| Medical posts | Dental posts | Total posts | |
| 30 September 1984 | 14,117 | 529 | 14,646 |
| 30 September 1980 | 13,240 | 506 | 13,746 |