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Nurses: Training

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Question for Department of Health

UIN 30373, tabled on 8 March 2016

Question

Sir Nicholas Soames
Conservative
Mid Sussex
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses commenced training in each of the last five years.

Answer

Ben Gummer
Conservative
Ipswich
Commons

Answered on

11 March 2016

The following table shows the number of pre-registration nurses who commenced training each year since 2010. The 2015/16 actual data is not yet available; the figure given is for planned.

Nursing

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

Actual

20,092

17,741

17,219

17,568

19,147

20,033

Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns

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