Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his Department's news story of 4 October 2016, entitled Up to 1,500 extra medical training places announced, when the Government plans to publish its consultation on how these proposals can be implemented; and what the reasons are for the time being taken to publish that consultation.
The consultation on the expansion of undergraduate medical education was published on Tuesday 14 March 2017. The consultation can be accessed at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/expanding-undergraduate-medical-education