Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total cost was to his Department of training student midwives in each of the last 10 years.
Information prior to 2013/14 is not held centrally by the Department.
Detailed below is an estimate of planned expenditure costs to Health Education England of providing training to student midwives since 2013/14.
Year | New Students Commissioned | Planned Students in training | Estimate Cost (million) |
2013/14 | 2,563 | 6,874 | £102.2m |
2014/15 | 2,603 | 6,624 | £120.8m |
2015/16 | 2,617 | 7,058 | £130.6m |
Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns