Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Government still plans to provide 10,000 new nursing degree places.

The Government remains committed to reforming nursing, midwifery and allied health pre-registration education and increasing the number of places available for students; at the same time ensuring these students have more cash available to them while they study.

Health Education England is confident that the National Health Service will have the required number of students it needs starting courses this year and will continue to work with the education sector to successfully deliver these reforms for the longer term.

Arrangements confirming the future clinical placement commissioning model will be published in due course.