Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of complaints submitted to the General Medical Council were upheld for (a) BAME NHS doctors and (b) all NHS doctors in the last 12 months; and what steps he is taking to ensure that processes and procedures within the General Medical Council do not discriminate against ethnic minorities.

The General Medical Council (GMC) has a number of processes in place to support the fairness and transparency of its investigation process and its fitness to practise decisions. We continue to work with the GMC to ensure it provides robust assurance about its processes.