Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost of training a consultant in vascular surgery.

The Department does not hold information on the average cost to the taxpayer of training someone to become a consultant in vascular surgery.

The Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent estimates within their report ‘Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2014’, published March 2014 (latest data available), that the average cost in 2013/14 of consultant training to be £726,551. These figures reflect the pre-registration costs of tuition, living expenses/lost production and clinical placements and the post-graduate costs of tuition and replacement costs not the average cost to the taxpayer.