Midwives: Graduates

(asked on 15th May 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people graduated as midwives in each of the last ten years.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 1st June 2026

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) publish data on the number of qualifiers, with a permanent address in England, from undergraduate midwifery courses. The following table shows the number of qualifiers from undergraduate midwifery courses with a permanent address in England between 2019 and 2024:

Year

Qualifiers

2019

2,005

2020

1,895

2021

2,380

2022

2,695

2023

2,830

2024

2,725

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency, Qualifiers by Subject.

A qualifier is defined by HESA as a student who gained a qualification during the academic year in question. HESA has not published qualifier figures for midwifery courses before 2019 or after 2024.

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