Question follow-through · 49972

Medicine: Higher Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on support available for medical students.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 May 2025
Target answer date
8 May 2025
Answer
12 May 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on support available for medical students.

  2. 8 May 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 12 May 2025

    Answer published

    The Department of Health and Social Care works closely with the Department for Education on an on-going basis, covering a wide range of matters to ensure the education system is supporting medical students.For the 2025/26 academic year, the Government wil...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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