HC Deb 10 December 1997 vol 302 c599W
Dr. Harris

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what financial support will be provided to medical students covering an additional, intercalated year in order to achieve a science degree. [19855]

Mr. Milburn

Where medical and dental students take an intercalated degree, it will be counted as part of their overall course. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced on 23 September, the Department will pay the students' contribution towards tuition fees and provide means-tested National Health Service bursaries for those students who are eligible from year five of their course onwards.

Dr. Harris

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what financial support will be made available by his Department to students who take(a) medicine and (b) dentistry as a second degree. [19856]

Mr. Milburn

As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced on 23 September, the Department will pay the students' contribution towards tuition fees and provide means-tested National Health Service bursaries for those students who are eligible from year five of their medicine or dentistry course onwards. No public support is available for second degree in any discipline.