Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on the income of NHS providers of the proposed withdrawal of the service increment for teaching funding for training international medical students.

In early 2017, the Department plans to run a public consultation on its proposals to expand domestic undergraduate medical training places by 1,500 per year, from the academic year 2018-19.

National Health Service providers will continue to receive placement funding for the minimum number of students that Health Education England forecast are required to meet the longer-term workforce needs of the NHS.