Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to prevent London medical schools from cross-subsidising the education of international students from their Service Increment for Teaching fund allocated to students from the UK and other EU countries.

The Education and Training tariff guidance document for 2017-18 is clear that funding for placements commissioned by Health Education England (HEE) must not be used to subsidise any element of the cost of placements for non-National Health Service funded students/trainees.

The responsibility for implementing these funding arrangements resides with HEE which commissions the placement activity from the provider.