Question follow-through · 115021
Medicine: Graduates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the equity of access to preference informed allocation for foundation year posts between UK graduates and international medical graduates.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 2 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the equity of access to preference informed allocation for foundation year posts between UK graduates and international medical graduates.
26 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Mar 2026
Answer published
We have introduced the Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill to deliver the Government’s commitment in the 10-Year Health Plan to prioritise United Kingdom medical graduates for foundation training places. Alongside UK graduates, the bill prioritises gra...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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