Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of veterinary nurses being trained in the UK in each of the last three years.
The Department does not have figures concerning the number of veterinary nursing students in each of those years but in 2014/15 there were 1039 UK graduates entering the veterinary nursing profession and registering with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (Veterinary Nurses) Register, and similarly in 2015/16 there 1036 entering the UK register (Source RCVS)