§ Mr. Dalyellasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will estimate how many fully qualified applicants are likely to be unable to gain entrance to university medical schools in October, 1967.
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§ Mr. CroslandRough estimates in Appendix A of the Fourth Report of the Universities Central Council on Admissions using different methods of calculation indicated that the number of suitably qualified candidates in the medical group who failed to gain admission to university in autumn 1966 might have been as low as 240 or as high as 3,000. These estimates were based on figures which cannot yet be available for autumn 1967. In these circumstances I consider that no worthwhile estimate can be made of how many fully qualified applicants are likely to be unable to secure admission to medical school this autumn.