To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many anaesthetic training posts in categories (a) ST1, (b) ST2, (c) ST3 and (d) SPR will be vacant on the first Wednesday of February 2008 in (i) England, (ii) London and (iii) Kent, Surrey and Sussex. (181171)

This information is not collated centrally.

Postgraduate deaneries are now recruiting doctors to take up specialty training programmes from August 2008. Information regarding the numbers of posts being appointed to can be found on the Modernising Medical Careers website at

www.mmc.nhs.uk.