Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the level of take up is of nursing apprenticeships; and what steps he is taking to encourage more people to take up nursing through that route.

The deployment of the Registered Nursing Degree Apprenticeships (RNDA) saw 2,243 starts in 2020/21 academic year and 3,416 starts in the 2021/22 academic year.

Up to £172 million of additional funding has been made available to employers as part of the Nurse 50K manifesto commitment to support the growth of RNDAs.

The National Health Service has also launched the fifth consecutive national recruitment campaign ‘We are the NHS’ in October 2022, aiming to inspire target audiences to undertake a career in nursing.