Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the difference in (a) vacancy rates, (b) time taken to recruit, (c) staff turnover and (d) locum expenditure for consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist posts between rural and urban NHS trusts in England.

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided on 14 September in response to Question 26765.