Midwives: Training

(asked on 26th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people applied for undergraduate pre-registration midwifery courses in each year since 2015.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 1st February 2023

The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) publish data on the number of applicants to midwifery courses in England. The number of applicants between 2018-19 and 2021-22 are shown in the table below.

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

Applicants

8,140

8,750

11,040

10,340

Source: UCAS end of cycle 2022, published at the following link:

https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-sector-level-end-cycle-data-resources-2022

Published UCAS data only covers the period from 2018-19 onwards.

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