Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of junior doctors have taken a break from NHS training after completing their foundation year in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

The information requested is contained in the report F2 Career Destination Report 2015 - (Table 5), which is available from the UK Foundation Programme Office website.

The UK Foundation Programme Office collects data and produces reports annually on behalf of Health Education England and the devolved nations which show intended career destinations of second year foundation doctors who have completed their foundation training across the United Kingdom.

Whilst the survey is a fairly accurate predictor of the destination of doctors who have completed foundation training the figures are not intended to be an accurate employment record, and are based on individual responses of those surveyed and therefore could be subject to change.