Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps with the Secretary of State for Education to increase the number of places for medical students that allow for no repayment of student loans or fees in the event that those students stay within the NHS for a set period of time.

The Government currently has no plans to do so. We have funded an additional 1,500 undergraduate medical school places each year for domestic students in England – a 25% increase over three years. This expansion was completed in September 2020. We also temporarily lifted the cap on medical school places for students who completed A-Levels in 2020 and 2021 who had an offer from a university in England to study medicine, subject to their grades.