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Medicine: Higher Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of medical school places.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 24 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 26 Feb 2025
Answer: 3 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of medical school places.
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
We are committed to training the staff we need, including doctors, to ensure that patients are cared for by the right professional, when and where they need it. We have launched the 10-Year Health Plan which will set out a bold agenda to reform and repair...

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