Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many UCAS applications have been received for (a) nursing, (b) midwifery and (c) other allied health professional courses for admission in the academic year 2017-18; and how many such applications were received at the same point in the admissions cycle for the years (i) 2014-15, (ii) 2015-16 and (iii) 2016-17.

Data regarding the number of UCAS applications for nursing, midwifery and other allied health professional courses are not published at this point in the admissions cycle.

End of cycle figures for nursing and other subjects allied to medicine for 2014-15 and 2015-16 have been published as part of the UCAS end of cycle data resources. The data is available here: https://www.ucas.com/sites/default/files/eoc_data_resource_2015-dr3_015_03.pdf