To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if, in the light of recent evidence published in the British Medical Journal of 26 May on the causes of certain obstetric accidents, he will undertake a review of the training of junior doctors in Wales in relation to foetal heart monitoring and the use of obstetric forceps.

Standards of training are laid down by the General Medical Council and the content of training programmes for junior doctors in this specialty is essentially a matter for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.