Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the timetable is for increasing medical training places by 1,500; and what assessment he has made of the need for new medical schools as a result of that increase.
500 additional places have already been allocated to existing medical schools and will be made available for students commencing courses from 1 August 2018.
We have consulted on how best to allocate the remaining 1,000 places by August 2019.
The Government response to the consultation was published on 9 August 2017 and is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/expanding-undergraduate-medical-education