Member

On offers made in respect of specialty programmes in 2026, Amendment 5, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Mohammed, seeks to postpone the implementation of the medical specialty training prioritisation requirements by one year, moving the effective date from 2026 to 2027. We cannot accept the amendment, because a key aim of the Bill is to address the severe bottlenecks in medical training that have built up over recent years, as we have discussed, not just today but on other occasions.