Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doctors entered core and further speciality training in each (a) speciality and (b) training region or deanery in each year since 2009.

Published information on the numbers of doctors and fill rates by specialty for both core and specialty training by deanery for 2011 is available at Health Education England’s (HEE) website at:

http://specialtytraining.hee.nhs.uk/specialty-recruitment/competition-ratios/.

Data on numbers of applicants and posts by specialty is also available for 2012 to 2015 on HEE’s website, but this is not broken down by deanery or region. Validated data by region is not yet available.

Validated national data is not available before 2011.