HC Deb 07 December 1982 vol 33 cc479-80W
12. Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many students were accepted into medical schools in the academic year 1982–83.

Mr. Waldegrave

It is provisionally estimated from special returns made by universities to the University Grants Committee that there were 4,018 undergraduate entrants to courses of pre-clinical medicine and 968 to pre-clinical dentistry in the universities of Great Britain in 1982–83. Information concerning postgraduate entry is not yet available.