To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of NHS Trust, Health Authority and Primary Care Trust board members were (a) women, (b) ethnic minorities and (c) disabled in each year since 1997. [128909]

The information available for the percentages of appointments to national health service boards in each category is as follows:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) chairmen, (b) chief executives and (c) other board members have resigned from, or not sought re-appointment to, an NHS Trust Board in each of the last six years. [129013]

This information is not collected, either by the National Health Service Appointments Commission or by the Department.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many women have been appointed by the NHS Appointments Commission to the position of (a) NHS Trust Chair and (b) NHS Trust board member. [129014]

Of those board members appointed by the National Health Service Appointments Commission who are still in post, 84 chairs are women (43.8 per cent.) and 402 non-executives are women (47.2 per cent.).

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have been appointed by the NHS Appointments Commission to the position of (a) NHS Trust Chief Executive and (b) NHS Trust board member, broken down by a declared background in (i) medicine, (ii) nursing and (iii) other professions allied to medicine. [129015]

Chief executives are appointed by the chair and non-executives of National Health Service boards, not by the NHS Appointments Commission. The information requested on the backgrounds of chairs and non-executive directors could be produced only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) executive and (b) non-executive NHS Trust directors have gone on to become (i) Chairmen and (ii) Chief Executives of an NHS Trust. [129016]

This information is not collected either by the National Health Service Appointments Commission or the Department.