Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total number of midwives in training was in each of the last two years.

The total numbers of midwives in training in England as at 31 March 2017 was 6,559. Data on the number of midwives in training in 2018 is not yet available.

The Government has committed to increasing the number of available midwifery training places in England by more than 3,000 over a four year period from 2019. The increase in available places will start in the 2019 academic year, with an additional 650 training places with increases of 1,000 in the subsequent years.