Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to prioritise UK medical school graduates for foundation year one posts.

The Government is committed to developing homegrown talent and to giving opportunities to more people across the country to join our National Health Service.

At the same time, we will always welcome internationally educated staff, who remain an important part of the workforce, and who have been since the inception of the NHS. We have published a Code of Practice for International Recruitment, ensuring stringent ethical standards when recruiting health and social care staff from overseas.

NHS England will keep the selection process for foundation training under review to make sure it works well for applicants.

We will publish a refreshed workforce plan to deliver the transformed health service we will build over the next decade and treat patients on time again.