Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Prostate Cancer UK's study entitled Using real world data to bridge the evidence gap left by prostate cancer screening trials, published in October 2024, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the finding relating to the reduction in potential harm following prostate-specific antigen testing.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) does not currently recommend screening for prostate cancer. This is because of the inaccuracy of the current best test for the condition, the prostate specific antigen test.
A UK NSC evidence review for prostate cancer screening is already underway. We welcome the study by Prostate Cancer UK, and will make sure it is fed into the UK NSC’s review of prostate screening.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Government response to the Brook House Inquiry report, published on 19 March 2024, what progress her Department has made on implementing the recommendations of that report.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
The abuse that took place at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) in 2017 was unacceptable.
The previous government published its response to the public inquiry into Brook House IRC on 19 March 2024, summarising the progress made since 2017 and addressing each of the ten key areas of concern raised in the report.
The new government is carefully considering the Inquiry’s recommendations and will set out its approach in due course.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) equalising capital gains tax with income tax, (b) applying national insurance to dividends from (i) shares, (ii) rent from property and (iii) interest on savings, (c) reviewing the effectiveness of (A) assets placed in trust, (B) business relief on AIM-listed shares, (C) agricultural and business relief and (D) other inheritance tax exemptions, (d) introducing a tax on share buybacks and (e) introducing a 2% wealth tax for assets of more than £10 million.
Answered by James Murray - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)
The government will set out any changes to taxation at fiscal events. Its plans at the Budget on October 30th will support its objectives of restoring fiscal responsibility whilst protecting working people.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will (a) collect and (b) publish data on (i) the protected characteristics of individuals in detention who have claimed asylum, (ii) where those individuals are detained and (iii) the period that those individuals have been detained for.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office publishes data on asylum seekers entering, in, and leaving detention in summary table Det_01 of the Immigration System Statistics data tables. Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the code of practice for statistics.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of community-based alternatives to detention.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
Detention is an important component of a functioning immigration system. The Department will keep under review the effectiveness of alternatives to detention pilots.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the risk of (a) abuse, (b) harassment and (c) violence faced by LGBTQI+ people in immigration detention centres.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
It is vital that detention and removal are carried out with dignity and respect, and we take the welfare and safety of people in our care very seriously. We will not tolerate any form of discrimination against those who are detained in our immigration removal estate. We keep the level of risk under regular review and will take robust action against anyone who is found not to have behaved appropriately.
In order to effectively support individuals in immigration detention who identify as LGBT+ there is detailed published guidance for all staff working in immigration removal centres (IRCs). Detention Services Orders 2/2016 ‘Lesbian, gay and bisexual detainees in the detention estate’ and 11/2012 ‘Care and Management of Transsexual Detainees’ set out the actions and safeguarding processes that are undertaken in IRCs to ensure that the needs of LGBT+ individuals are identified and appropriately met.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have entered the NHS midwifery workforce through (a) pre-registration undergraduate courses, (b) apprenticeships, (c) postgraduate conversion from nursing, (d) return to midwifery programmes, (e) international recruitment and (f) other routes according to the most recent data available to his Department; and what assessment his Department has made of the contribution of each route to growing that workforce over the (i) last and (ii) next five years.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In order to bring together questions on the education and training of midwives and the flow of staff into the National Health Service midwifery workforce, a number of strands of the available data are presented below.
Data published by the Office for Students, in the Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey (HESES), collates figures submitted by individual higher education providers to give an indication of the number of students starting in each academic year. The HESES’ data includes figures on undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery courses in England. The latest published data is for those starting courses in 2023. The following table shows the number of undergraduate and postgraduate starters on midwifery courses in England for 2019 to 2023:
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
Undergraduate starters | 2,930 | 3,460 | 3,565 | 3,305 | 3,255 |
Postgraduate starters | 55 | 100 | 135 | 190 | 195 |
Source: The Office for Students’ HESES data for 2023.
The following table shows the number of qualifiers from undergraduate midwifery courses in England, with a qualifier being defined by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) as a student who gained a qualification during the academic year in question, for the academic years 2020/21 to 2022/23:
| 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
Undergraduate midwifery qualifiers | 1,895 | 2,380 | 2,705 |
Source: HESA’s qualifier data 2023
Note: Data is currently only available up to the academic year 2022/23.
Additionally, there are midwives training through an apprenticeship route. The following table shows the number of starts on midwifery apprenticeships, including apprenticeships within NHS and non-NHS organisations, in each of the last five years:
Year | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Starts | 26 | 39 | 22 | 42 | 72 |
Source: Department for Education Apprenticeships and traineeships statistics, October 2024.
Note: Data on the provisional starts for the year 2023/24 is only available between August 2023 to July 2024.
The Department does not hold data which would allow the identification of the route which joiners to the NHS registered midwifery workforce have taken to become active in the service, or what these flows will be in future years. Data published by NHS England does show the total annual number of staff who join active service across NHS trusts and other core organisations. Joiners are not the same as those recruited to the NHS, as they will include staff returning after breaks in activity. Joiners will also include experienced midwives joining from non-NHS providers. Within this data we can see the number who are joiners at Agenda for Change pay band five, which is where newly qualified or less experience staff would be placed. Data also contains the nationality of staff joining active service, and whilst self-reported nationality is not the same as place of training or previous residence, it does provide a guide to scale. The following table shows the annual number of midwives joining active service in the NHS in England, as well as those joining at band five, and those joining who reported non-United Kingdom nationalities, for each of the last five years up until June:
Year ending | June 2020 | June 2021 | June 2022 | June 2023 | June 2024 |
Annual midwives joining active service | 3,242 | 1,845 | 3,320 | 3,883 | 4,278 |
Joining at band five | 1,685 | 421 | 1,766 | 2,172 | 2,479 |
Joining any grade with a non-UK nationality | 243 | 155 | 247 | 593 | 616 |
Source: NHS England, NHS Workforce Statistics.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people who joined the NHS as a midwife were newly-qualified as midwives in each of last five years.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In order to bring together questions on the education and training of midwives and the flow of staff into the National Health Service midwifery workforce, a number of strands of the available data are presented below.
Data published by the Office for Students, in the Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey (HESES), collates figures submitted by individual higher education providers to give an indication of the number of students starting in each academic year. The HESES’ data includes figures on undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery courses in England. The latest published data is for those starting courses in 2023. The following table shows the number of undergraduate and postgraduate starters on midwifery courses in England for 2019 to 2023:
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
Undergraduate starters | 2,930 | 3,460 | 3,565 | 3,305 | 3,255 |
Postgraduate starters | 55 | 100 | 135 | 190 | 195 |
Source: The Office for Students’ HESES data for 2023.
The following table shows the number of qualifiers from undergraduate midwifery courses in England, with a qualifier being defined by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) as a student who gained a qualification during the academic year in question, for the academic years 2020/21 to 2022/23:
| 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
Undergraduate midwifery qualifiers | 1,895 | 2,380 | 2,705 |
Source: HESA’s qualifier data 2023
Note: Data is currently only available up to the academic year 2022/23.
Additionally, there are midwives training through an apprenticeship route. The following table shows the number of starts on midwifery apprenticeships, including apprenticeships within NHS and non-NHS organisations, in each of the last five years:
Year | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Starts | 26 | 39 | 22 | 42 | 72 |
Source: Department for Education Apprenticeships and traineeships statistics, October 2024.
Note: Data on the provisional starts for the year 2023/24 is only available between August 2023 to July 2024.
The Department does not hold data which would allow the identification of the route which joiners to the NHS registered midwifery workforce have taken to become active in the service, or what these flows will be in future years. Data published by NHS England does show the total annual number of staff who join active service across NHS trusts and other core organisations. Joiners are not the same as those recruited to the NHS, as they will include staff returning after breaks in activity. Joiners will also include experienced midwives joining from non-NHS providers. Within this data we can see the number who are joiners at Agenda for Change pay band five, which is where newly qualified or less experience staff would be placed. Data also contains the nationality of staff joining active service, and whilst self-reported nationality is not the same as place of training or previous residence, it does provide a guide to scale. The following table shows the annual number of midwives joining active service in the NHS in England, as well as those joining at band five, and those joining who reported non-United Kingdom nationalities, for each of the last five years up until June:
Year ending | June 2020 | June 2021 | June 2022 | June 2023 | June 2024 |
Annual midwives joining active service | 3,242 | 1,845 | 3,320 | 3,883 | 4,278 |
Joining at band five | 1,685 | 421 | 1,766 | 2,172 | 2,479 |
Joining any grade with a non-UK nationality | 243 | 155 | 247 | 593 | 616 |
Source: NHS England, NHS Workforce Statistics.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many students were enrolled on (a) pre-registration undergraduate and (b) postgraduate midwifery courses in each year of study in each of the last five years.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In order to bring together questions on the education and training of midwives and the flow of staff into the National Health Service midwifery workforce, a number of strands of the available data are presented below.
Data published by the Office for Students, in the Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey (HESES), collates figures submitted by individual higher education providers to give an indication of the number of students starting in each academic year. The HESES’ data includes figures on undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery courses in England. The latest published data is for those starting courses in 2023. The following table shows the number of undergraduate and postgraduate starters on midwifery courses in England for 2019 to 2023:
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
Undergraduate starters | 2,930 | 3,460 | 3,565 | 3,305 | 3,255 |
Postgraduate starters | 55 | 100 | 135 | 190 | 195 |
Source: The Office for Students’ HESES data for 2023.
The following table shows the number of qualifiers from undergraduate midwifery courses in England, with a qualifier being defined by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) as a student who gained a qualification during the academic year in question, for the academic years 2020/21 to 2022/23:
| 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
Undergraduate midwifery qualifiers | 1,895 | 2,380 | 2,705 |
Source: HESA’s qualifier data 2023
Note: Data is currently only available up to the academic year 2022/23.
Additionally, there are midwives training through an apprenticeship route. The following table shows the number of starts on midwifery apprenticeships, including apprenticeships within NHS and non-NHS organisations, in each of the last five years:
Year | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Starts | 26 | 39 | 22 | 42 | 72 |
Source: Department for Education Apprenticeships and traineeships statistics, October 2024.
Note: Data on the provisional starts for the year 2023/24 is only available between August 2023 to July 2024.
The Department does not hold data which would allow the identification of the route which joiners to the NHS registered midwifery workforce have taken to become active in the service, or what these flows will be in future years. Data published by NHS England does show the total annual number of staff who join active service across NHS trusts and other core organisations. Joiners are not the same as those recruited to the NHS, as they will include staff returning after breaks in activity. Joiners will also include experienced midwives joining from non-NHS providers. Within this data we can see the number who are joiners at Agenda for Change pay band five, which is where newly qualified or less experience staff would be placed. Data also contains the nationality of staff joining active service, and whilst self-reported nationality is not the same as place of training or previous residence, it does provide a guide to scale. The following table shows the annual number of midwives joining active service in the NHS in England, as well as those joining at band five, and those joining who reported non-United Kingdom nationalities, for each of the last five years up until June:
Year ending | June 2020 | June 2021 | June 2022 | June 2023 | June 2024 |
Annual midwives joining active service | 3,242 | 1,845 | 3,320 | 3,883 | 4,278 |
Joining at band five | 1,685 | 421 | 1,766 | 2,172 | 2,479 |
Joining any grade with a non-UK nationality | 243 | 155 | 247 | 593 | 616 |
Source: NHS England, NHS Workforce Statistics.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people graduated from pre-registration undergraduate midwifery courses as newly-qualified midwives in each of the last five years.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In order to bring together questions on the education and training of midwives and the flow of staff into the National Health Service midwifery workforce, a number of strands of the available data are presented below.
Data published by the Office for Students, in the Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey (HESES), collates figures submitted by individual higher education providers to give an indication of the number of students starting in each academic year. The HESES’ data includes figures on undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery courses in England. The latest published data is for those starting courses in 2023. The following table shows the number of undergraduate and postgraduate starters on midwifery courses in England for 2019 to 2023:
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
Undergraduate starters | 2,930 | 3,460 | 3,565 | 3,305 | 3,255 |
Postgraduate starters | 55 | 100 | 135 | 190 | 195 |
Source: The Office for Students’ HESES data for 2023.
The following table shows the number of qualifiers from undergraduate midwifery courses in England, with a qualifier being defined by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) as a student who gained a qualification during the academic year in question, for the academic years 2020/21 to 2022/23:
| 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
Undergraduate midwifery qualifiers | 1,895 | 2,380 | 2,705 |
Source: HESA’s qualifier data 2023
Note: Data is currently only available up to the academic year 2022/23.
Additionally, there are midwives training through an apprenticeship route. The following table shows the number of starts on midwifery apprenticeships, including apprenticeships within NHS and non-NHS organisations, in each of the last five years:
Year | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Starts | 26 | 39 | 22 | 42 | 72 |
Source: Department for Education Apprenticeships and traineeships statistics, October 2024.
Note: Data on the provisional starts for the year 2023/24 is only available between August 2023 to July 2024.
The Department does not hold data which would allow the identification of the route which joiners to the NHS registered midwifery workforce have taken to become active in the service, or what these flows will be in future years. Data published by NHS England does show the total annual number of staff who join active service across NHS trusts and other core organisations. Joiners are not the same as those recruited to the NHS, as they will include staff returning after breaks in activity. Joiners will also include experienced midwives joining from non-NHS providers. Within this data we can see the number who are joiners at Agenda for Change pay band five, which is where newly qualified or less experience staff would be placed. Data also contains the nationality of staff joining active service, and whilst self-reported nationality is not the same as place of training or previous residence, it does provide a guide to scale. The following table shows the annual number of midwives joining active service in the NHS in England, as well as those joining at band five, and those joining who reported non-United Kingdom nationalities, for each of the last five years up until June:
Year ending | June 2020 | June 2021 | June 2022 | June 2023 | June 2024 |
Annual midwives joining active service | 3,242 | 1,845 | 3,320 | 3,883 | 4,278 |
Joining at band five | 1,685 | 421 | 1,766 | 2,172 | 2,479 |
Joining any grade with a non-UK nationality | 243 | 155 | 247 | 593 | 616 |
Source: NHS England, NHS Workforce Statistics.