asked the Minister of Health what further steps the Government are taking to increase the number of doctors.

The University Grants Committee has now made building allocations for work on medical schools expansion starting in 1968–69 and 1969–70 which will add a further 115 to the annual entry of medical students. The effect of these, and of the allocations already announced for earlier years, will be to enable the medical schools to increase the annual entry of British-based students, which has already risen from 1,788 in 1960–61 to the present figure of 2,283, to about 2,650. I shall be arranging for the provision of the necessary clinical facilities for the later part of the course.