Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nurse apprentices are training in York as of 10 January 2023; and whether he is taking steps to increase the number of nursing apprenticeships in other parts of the country.

Individual trust level data on the number of nurse degree apprentices training in York is collected by the Department for Education. The Government has provided £172 million of additional funding to employers to support growth in nurse apprenticeships as part of its commitment to deliver 50,000 more nurses.

The number of Registered Nursing Degree Apprenticeships (RNDAs) has been increasing nationally. In the 2019/20 academic year there were 938 RNDA starts, compared to 2,243 in 2020/21 and 3,416 in 2021/22.