Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many veterinarians qualified in each of the last 10 years, broken down by gender.
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the regulatory body for the veterinary profession in the UK, has confirmed that the breakdown of new UK registrants for the each of the last 10 years is as follows:-
Year | Gender | Count | Total per year |
2005 | F | 828 | |
2005 | M | 490 | =1318 |
2006 | F | 910 | |
2006 | M | 458 | =1368 |
2007 | F | 913 | |
2007 | M | 488 | =1401 |
2008 | F | 920 | |
2008 | M | 391 | =1311 |
2009 | F | 921 | |
2009 | M | 351 | =1272 |
2010 | F | 963 | |
2010 | M | 358 | =1321 |
2011 | F | 1041 | |
2011 | M | 425 | =1466 |
2012 | F | 1084 | |
2012 | M | 461 | =1545 |
2013 | F | 1103 | |
2013 | M | 499 | =1602 |
2014 | F | 1166 | |
2014 | M | 504 | =1670 |
2015 | F | 1442 | |
2015 | M | 632 | =2074 |