Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the latest recruitment statistics are for medical training positions starting from August 2017.

The latest recruitment data for medical training positions starting from August 2017 were published by Health Education England on 4 July and are available at:

https://hee.nhs.uk/our-work/attracting-recruiting/medical-recruitment/specialty-recruitment-round-1-acceptance-fill-rate

For specialties that have more than one round of recruitment, round 2 data will be published in due course once the recruitment round has been completed.