Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the recruitment of doctors from overseas through the Medical Training Initiative.
The Medical Training Initiative enables up to 1,000 international medical and dental graduates per year to enter the United Kingdom to experience training and development in the National Health Service for up to two years before returning to their home country. The Government keeps the number of doctors able to participate in this scheme under regular review.