Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government why they have denied funding for domestic students at the Three Counties Medical School at the University of Worcester.

The Government continues to keep the number of medical school places that it funds under review. NHS England has been commissioned to produce a long-term workforce plan. The Government has committed to publishing the plan shortly and this will include independently verified forecasts for the number of healthcare professionals required in future years, taking full account of improvements in retention and productivity. The workforce plan is for the whole of the NHS workforce.