Nicholas Soames – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2016-03-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons the number of doctors under training per year is capped.

Ben Gummer

The Government makes a significant investment in educating and training doctors. Health Education England has oversight in determining overall medical place numbers as we only fund places for the numbers of doctors we will need to work in the National Health Service in the future.