Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding provided for the NHS Workforce Plan will be for professional development of (a) medical staff and (b) non-medical staff.

It is the responsibility of individual employers to invest in the future of their staff and provide continuing professional development (CPD) funding.

To supplement local employer investment for CPD, the Government announced in September 2019 a £210 million funding boost to provide every nurse, midwife and allied health professional (AHP) working in the National Health Service in England with a personal budget of £1,000 over the three years to 2022/23.

The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan sets out NHS England’s commitment to continue national CPD funding for nurses, midwives and AHPs. The operation of this scheme will be kept under review, to ensure subsequent funding is in line with workforce growth and inflation, well targeted and achieving the desired outcomes.