Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people enrolled onto midwifery (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate courses in each year of study in each of the last five academic years.

Data published by the Office for Students in the Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey (HESES), collates figures submitted by individual higher education providers to give an indication of the number of students studying in each academic year. HESES data includes figures on undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery courses in England. The latest published data is for those starting courses in 2022. The table below gives the number of undergraduate and postgraduate starters on midwifery courses in England, each year from 2018 to 2022:

Source: The Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey (HESES) 2018 to 2022.

The table below presents the latest available data published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), for the number of qualifiers from undergraduate midwifery courses in England, for the years 2019/20 to 2021/22:

Source: The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) qualifier data 2022

Note: A qualifier is defined by the HESA as a student who gained a qualification during the academic year in question.

The Department does not hold information on the proportion of student midwives who left university courses, in each of the last five years.