Midwives: Training

(asked on 17th November 2015) - View Source

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.


Answered by
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Ben Gummer
This question was answered on 24th November 2015

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


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