Midwives
(asked on 20th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many student midwives were in receipt of a bursary in each of the last three years for which figures are available; what the average bursary paid to a student midwife was in each of those years; and what the total cost of those bursaries was to his Department in each of those years.
The number of midwifery students who were in receipt of a bursary, the average bursary paid to those students and the total cost of all bursaries paid to student midwives in each of the last three academic years can be found in the following table:
Year | Number of bursary holders 1 | Average amount paid per bursary holder 2 | Total amount paid 2 |
2010-11 | 5,218 | £5,722 | £29,854,947 |
2011-12 | 5,345 | £5,867 | £31,358,058 |
2012-13 | 5,448 | £6,121 | £33,344,511 |
Notes:
1 Includes nil award holders (European Union fees only students and students whose living allowance element of the bursary has been reduced to nil after income assessment)
2 Includes the basic award and all supplementary allowances and one off payments.
3 All figures are round to the nearest pound.
Source: NHS Business Services Authority