Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of students applying to study nursing and midwifery.

The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) publish data on the number of students applying to study nursing.

The latest data, covering placed applicants and those free to be placed in clearing for the 2017 cycle, was published on 14 September 2017.

Figures on the number of placed English applicants to nursing are in Table AB.4 and figures on the number of English nursing applicants who were yet to be placed are in Table AB.13 of the following file:

https://www.ucas.com/file/125716/download?token=PiEKTpQw.

UCAS will be publishing final figures for nursing applicants for the 2017 cycle on Monday 4 December 2017. These will be available here:

https://www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis/ucas-undergraduate-releases/ucas-undergraduate-analysis-reports/2017-end-cycle-report.