Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many training places there were for ophthalmology in the NHS in each of the last five years.

The following table shows the number of doctors in training in the ophthalmology specialty in England, in each of the last five years:

Source: General Medical Council, National Training Survey, via Data Explorer, available at the following link:
https://gde.gmc-uk.org/postgraduate-training/postgraduate-trainees/postgraduate-trainees-summary-data