Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost of training a doctor to GP standard has been to the public purse in each of the last five years.

Steve Brine, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health: The Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent estimates within their report ‘Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2016’, published December 2016, that the average cost in 2015/16 of training a general practitioner is £387,995. This figure is the total cost of training including costs to the public purse and the individual.

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