Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individuals (a) were accepted onto pre-registration midwifery training courses, (b) started their pre-registration midwifery training, (c) were at any stage in their pre-registration midwifery training and (d) successfully completed their pre-registration midwifery training, in England, in each academic year since 2015-16.

In the 2021/22 application cycle, there were 3,720 students accepted places onto undergraduate midwifery courses in England. The following table shows the number of accepted places in midwifery courses in each academic year since 2015.

Source: The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service

The information requested on the number of individuals at stages on pre-registration midwifery training is not held centrally.