Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many refugee doctors have been able to become registered by the General Medical Council in the last five years; and in which medical specialties those doctors are practicing.

The information requested is not held by the Department.

The General Medical Council (GMC) is the independent regulator of doctors in the United Kingdom. It has advised that from 1 September 2012 to 31 August 2017, the GMC has registered 117 refugee doctors. Of these doctors, currently 105 are registered, and 104 with a licence to practise.

The GMC has informed us that the numbers of practising refugee doctors split per medical specialities are very small and could lead to identification of individuals, and we are therefore not providing this information.