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Resident Doctors: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average annual study budget available for resident doctors in England who are undertaking training or professional development is.

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 2 Dec 2025
Target answer date: 4 Dec 2025
Answer: 5 Jan 2026 · 34 calendar days after tabling

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2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average annual study budget available for resident doctors in England who are undertaking training or professional development is.
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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5 Jan 2026
Answer published
For the 2025/26 financial year, the total study budget allocated for doctors and dentists in postgraduate training in England is £54.5 million. The levels of spend by individual trainees are not collected centrally.We do not hold comparable data for Scotl...

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