§ Mr. John Mooreasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, further to the Secretary of State for Social Services' answer in the Official Report, 1st February, column 84, if he will specify measures the Government have taken to put into effect the very high priority they give to expanding United Kingdom medical schools and providing a larger number of doctors overall.
§ Mr. OakesThe Government have been continuing to provide places to increase the annual entry to medical schools from under 2,000 in 1962 to over 4,000 in the early 1980s. Within the last seven years three new medical schools have been established, at the Universities of Nottingham, Southampton and Leicester, and major rebuilding has been carried out at many other schools. The number of first registrable medical qualifications awarded has risen from about 1,800 in the early 1960s to 2,750 in 1975–76.