Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many student midwives there were in England in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the total number of student midwives in training in England as at the end of each financial year for the period 2010/11 to 2014/15.
Year | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 |
Midwives | 5,644 | 5,955 | 6,315 | 6,413 | 6,662 |
Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns.