Question follow-through · 108727
Medicine: Graduates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of (a) home students and (b) non-home students who graduated from the UK with a primary medical degree from 2010 to 2020 remain working in the NHS.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 27 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 5 Feb 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of (a) home students and (b) non-home students who graduated from the UK with a primary medical degree from 2010 to 2020 remain working in the NHS.
2 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Feb 2026
Answer published
The Department does not hold the data requested. The Department does though hold data from internal analysis that may give wider context to the question tabled and this is included below.This analysis shows that of United Kingdom medical school students g...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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