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Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many (a) nurses and (b) doctors have been employed in Scotland by the National Health Service in each of the last 10 years.
Mr. John MacKay
The information requested by whole-time equivalent numbers is as follows:
| Area | 1981–82 | 1982–83 | 1983–84 | *1984–85 |
| Highland | 9 | 14 | 27 | 33 |
| Lothian | 304 | 580 | 726 | 884 |
| Orkney | — | — | — | — |
| Shetland | — | — | — | — |
| Strathclyde | 312 | 542 | 696 | 785 |
| Tayside | 118 | 233 | 323 | 386 |
| Western Isles | — | — | — | — |
| Scotland | 790 | 1,450 | 1,900 | 2,260 |
| *Provisional. | ||||