Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the outcome was of his Department's application of the Family Test to the decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors.

On the 11 February 2016 my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State made an oral statement, Official Report, columns 1763-1765 in which he announced that he would proceed with the introduction of a new national contract for doctors in training, following advice that there was no realistic prospect of reaching agreement with the British Medical Association.

The Secretary of State will carefully consider the draft final terms of such a contract in light of any applicable duties and the Family Test.