Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people applied to undertake undergraduate mental health nursing degrees in the UK in each of the last five years.
The Department is not responsible for collecting data on the number of applications to study nursing and midwifery degree courses.
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service publishes data on the number of applications to full-time undergraduate courses.
Further information and links to 2017 and 2018 application cycle data are available at: