I propose to take Questions Nos. 202 and 203 together.
Employment levels for each grade category in the health service, as requested by the Deputy, are as set out in the following table A. Details of the grade category breakdown for each health board are shown in table B.
Regarding staff categorised as management-administrative in October 2001, following a request from my Department the health boards carried out a comprehensive analysis of the primary roles and functions of these personnel. The results of the exercise as applied to management/administrative staff in the health boards are set out in table C. The Deputy may wish to note that 64% of these employees provide direct patient services as, for example, outpatient-A&E-admissions staff, consultants, clinicians and nurse manager's secretaries, medical records personnel and telephonists.
Table A
Total Health Service Staffing 1997-2001