Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many student entrants there were to gynaecology and obstetrics in NHS England in each of the last seven years.

The number of obstetrics and gynaecology trainees who have entered specialty training year one in the last five years is set out in the table below:

Source: Health Education England

The Department does not hold national data dating further back than this.

Education and training in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales is a matter for the devolved administration of that country.