Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of training places that will be offered for (a) doctors, (b) nurses, (c) allied health professionals and (d) scientists in each of the next five years.

In the 2022/23 academic year 7,571 places will be offered for medical undergraduate courses and 809 places for dentistry courses, in England. These are intake targets set by the Office for Students (OfS). These targets are set annually and thus we do not hold information about the number of medicine and dentistry places to be offered in subsequent years.

The Department does not hold the specific number of places offered in the next five years for courses in nursing, allied health professions and healthcare science.