Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Maria Caulfield and Alistair Burt

Tuesday 5th January 2016 Commons Chamber

[Alistair Burt]

I am grateful to my hon. Friend not only for his question but for previous questions in relation to this area and his obvious interest and concern about it. He is right. Nationally, the numbers of looked-after and abused children in the new prevalence survey—the first since 2004—would be relatively small. We have therefore asked the statisticians to look at different ways of assessing the data and the numbers so that we can address this issue. I hope to be able to report further on that later in the new year after I have had that meeting.

[Maria Caulfield (Lewes) (Con)]

13. What steps he plans to take to increase the availability of nurse training in the NHS.