Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 May 1965.
There are two questions here. There is the expanding need for more medical students and how it may be met, whether by the provision of new medical schools or the expansion of existing ones. The whole matter is being considered by an official working party representing the Treasury, the Minister of Health, the U.G.C., the Scottish Health Department and my own Department. Until it has produced its conclusions I cannot go further. I will make one further point, which is that the final answer will inevitably depend upon the general review of plans for public expenditure to be undertaken by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.