Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the independent review of physician associate and anaesthesia associate professions, led by Professor Gillian Leng CBE, will consider the impact of physician and anaesthetist associates on the availability of training places for junior doctors, the nature and structure of junior doctor training programmes, and the levels of remuneration for junior doctors.

As set out in the published Terms of Reference, the Leng review will be an end-to-end review of the Physician Associate and Anaesthesia Associate professions, covering selection and recruitment, training, day to day work, scope of practice, oversight, supervision, and professional regulation.

As part of the deal agreed between the Government and the British Medical Association (BMA) Resident Doctors Committee, the Government has committed to work in partnership with the BMA and other health organisations to review the current system of training and rotational placements for resident doctors. This work is being taken forward outside the Leng Review.

The levels of remuneration for resident doctors are not in scope of the review, as the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration advises the Government on rates of pay for doctors and dentists.