Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on how many medical students have not gone on to work in the NHS upon completion of their training in each of the last five years; and whether he has made an assessment of the consequences for his policies of changes in the levels of medical students entering the NHS workforce.

There is published information on numbers of students, and doctors from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, the Office for Students, the General Medical Council and NHS England. However, there is no published estimate of what proportion of medics on graduation go onto to work in the National Health Service and the different sources cannot easily be compared. No assessment of the direct impact on Government policies has been made.