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Like the noble Lord, Lord Patel, I have never prescribed to the view that just because you have qualified as a UK-trained medical doctor, you have an automatic right to go into specialty training. Clearly, people have to get over some bars. But for the state to fund so many additional training places and then not be able to allow people to access specialty training is clearly ludicrous. The Government had to do something. They have had to make a hard choice here and, in the end, I have to support it.