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Mr. Wigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list for each year since 1981 the number of whole-time equivalent nurses working in Northern Ireland in (a) hospital maternity units and (b) special care baby units.
Mr. Needham
[holding answer 26 April 1988]: It has not been possible to distinguish between nurses working in hospital maternity units and special care baby units. The combined totals are as follows:
| Nurses | |
| 1981 | .. |
| 1982 | 113,80 |
| 1983 | 108,47 |
| 1984 | 95,58 |
| 1985 | 115,15 |
| 1986 | 89,30 |
| 1987 | 100,52 |
| .. = Not available. | |