Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 97890

Doctors: Graduates

Tabled: 8 December 2025
Answered: 8 January 2026

Question

Mr Louie French

ConservativeOld Bexley and Sidcup

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the loss of UK-trained medical graduates to (a) alternative careers and (b) emigration.

Answer

Karin Smyth
On 8 December 2025, the Government put an offer in writing to the British Medical Association Resident Doctors Committee which would put in place emergency legislation in the new year which would prioritise United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland medical g...

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