Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to ensure that NHS bursaries are funded for the full degree course; and if he will make a statement.

The NHS bursary is available to students in each year of their degree. The only exception to this is medical and dental students where the responsibility for funding these courses is shared between the Department for Business Innovation and Skills and the Department of Health. These students receive the standard student support package in the early years of study and the NHS bursary in the later years. Undergraduate students receive the bursary from their fifth year and graduate entry students from their second.

There are no plans to change the support that is made available.