Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many bursaries have been offered (a) in total and (b) in each of the seven most hard to recruit areas as part of NHS England's Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

The Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme has been set up by Health Education England (HEE) and NHS England as a one year pilot scheme to support recruitment of general practitioner trainees in the 109 training places in England that have been hard to recruit to for the past three years.

Recruitment is currently ongoing and 2016 fill rates will be published on the HEE website once recruitment has closed.