Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government to how many retired doctors the General Medical Council granted temporary emergency registration under section 18a of the Medical Act 1983; and how many of these retired doctors have applied for reinstatement to the Register of the General Medical Council to enable them to continue to practice after 30 September.

The General Medical Council (GMC) is the independent regulator of all medical doctors practising in the United Kingdom which sets and enforces the standards all doctors must adhere to. In order to practise medicine in the UK, doctors are required to hold registration with a licence to practise.

The Department does not hold the information requested as this is collected independently by the GMC.