Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 96446

Resident Doctors: Scotland and Wales

Tabled: 2 December 2025
Answered: 5 January 2026

Question

Dr Peter Prinsley

LabourBury St Edmunds and Stowmarket

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government holds data on the average resident doctor study budget in England compared with that available in (a) Scotland and (b) Wales.

Answer

Karin Smyth
For the 2025/26 financial year, the total study budget allocated for doctors and dentists in postgraduate training in England is £54.5 million. The levels of spend by individual trainees are not collected centrally.We do not hold comparable data for Scotl...

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