Mr. Robert Watt:

Obviously, I do not agree with the characterisation. We have been engaging with the Department of Education particularly intensively over the past number of years to improve the training places. It was a question in response to whether we can do more and the constraint has been the capacity within the medical schools. If the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science is in favour of more places, we would absolutely be in favour of more places. It might be an idea to hear from the schools themselves, invite them in and ask them to talk about the issues they face, the capacity and what is the issue if they cannot increase the number of places. We would increase them massively. We want to do more than the 60 this year and we want to do more than the 200 that we have. We are looking at other options outside of the existing schools to see if we can grow. We are absolutely in favour of whatever option can increase it.