Question follow-through · 7674
Medicine: Higher Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage people from lower-income backgrounds to study medicine, in the context of the availability of financial support for maintenance available in the fif
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 10 Oct 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
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- Nurses: Students · 11 Nov 2024
- Medicine: Training · 14 Nov 2024
- NHS Learning Support Fund · 14 Nov 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
7 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage people from lower-income backgrounds to study medicine, in the context of the availability of financial support for maintenance available in the fif
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Oct 2024
Answer published
From year five of their undergraduate course, medical students can access the NHS Bursary. This is non-repayable and comprises payment for tuition fees, income-assessed help towards living costs, and where eligible, further allowances, such as for depende...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Nurses: Finance
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Nurses: Students
11 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making retrospective payments to student nurses that were incorrectly labelled as being ineligible for the £5,000 annual training grant via
Medicine: Training
14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the NHS Bursary living allowance to match the Student Finance England maintenance loan.
NHS Learning Support Fund
14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing medical students in all years of the course to access the Learning Support Fund.
Ambulance Services: Cornwall
9 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve ambulance response times in Cornwall.
Royal Cornwall Hospital: Ambulance Services
9 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce ambulance hand over times at the Royal Cornwall Hospital.
Royal Cornwall Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments
9 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the proportion of patients (a) transferred, (b) admitted and (c) discharged within four hours at the Emergency Department in Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust.
Royal Cornwall Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments
9 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the proportion of attendees who waited 12 hours or more from their time of arrival to be (a) transferred, (b) admitted and (c) discharged from Royal Cornwall Hospi
Ambulance Services: South West
9 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the hours lost to handover delays by South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust.
Endometriosis
14 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that all healthcare professionals have adequate training and awareness of endometriosis.
Heart Diseases: Sports Competitors
29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that amateur athletes have access to an effective screening programme for cardiac conditions.