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Ms. Harman
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what are the current staff vacancy levels and staff turnover rates for the pathology MLSO grades in the National Health Service.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
We do not hold this information centrally. At 30 September 1988, the latest date for which data are available, there were 15,180 (whole-time equivalent) medical laboratory scientific officers (including unqualified grades) in post in the NHS in England.