Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the current time limit to complete Occupational English Tests on medical professionals sitting the test in (a) the South West and (b) the rest of the UK; and whether he has plans to change the time limit.

No assessment has been made by the Department to address time limits in English language exams, or on the number of medical professionals this impacts in the United Kingdom. Neither the Department nor the healthcare regulators set the content or time limit of English language exams. The content and time limit of English language exams is set by the organisation carrying out the assessment.