Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the recent increase in the number of resident doctors who say they are neurodivergent or have learning disabilities.

There has been no assessment made of the increase in the number of resident doctors who are neurodivergent or have learning disabilities.

The General Medical Council has published the number of doctors who have declared learning disabilities in their GMC Workforce Report. However, the data is not broken down to specifically show resident doctors. In 2024, just over 6,000 licensed doctors recorded their disability as a ‘learning disability’.