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Mr. Jim Cunningham
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the ratio of speech therapists to population is in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK as a whole; [93137](2) how many speech therapists are working in Coventry. [93138]
Mr. Lammy
[holding answer 28 January 2003]: The latest available information is shown in the table. Figures for the United Kingdom are not available, so England figures have been used.
| NHS hospital and community services (HCHS): qualified | ||||
| scientific, therapeutic and technical staff rates per 100,000 | ||||
| population within the speech and language therapy area of work | ||||
| for Coventry health authority, West Midlands regional office area | ||||
| and England as at 30 September 2001 | ||||
| Numbers of staff | Rate per 100,000 population | |||
| Whole-time equivalents | Headcount | Whole-time equivalents | Headcount | |
| England | 4,207 | 5,685 | 8.6 | 11.6 |
| of which: | ||||
| West Midlands | 446 | 576 | 8.5 | 10.9 |
| of which: | ||||
| Coventry HA | 33 | 41 | 11 | 13.6 |