Question follow-through · 30091
Medical Laboratory Scientific Officers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of available training positions for qualified graduates to become registered biomedical scientists.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 14 Feb 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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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
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of available training positions for qualified graduates to become registered biomedical scientists.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Feb 2025
Answer published
Decisions on the availability of graduate-entry trainee positions to become registered biomedical scientists are matters for individual National Health Service trusts. NHS trusts manage their recruitment at a local level to ensure they have the right numb...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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