Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many students were training to be GPs in each of the last ten years.

The information is not collected by the Department.

The Government established Health Education England (HEE) to be responsible for delivering a better health and healthcare workforce for England and for ensuring a secure future supply, to cope with changes in demand, taking into account factors such as the age profile of the existing workforce, the impact of technology, and new drugs.

HEE has published the number of postgraduate medical trainees that enter general practice specialty training at ST1 in each of the last five years, at:

http://gprecruitment.hee.nhs.uk/Portals/8/Documents/Annual%20Reports/GP%20ST1%20Recruitment%20Figures%202009-13.pdf

This information is summarised in the following table together with the number of posts that were commissioned and the fill rate.