Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received form (a) medical professionals and (b) patients on the reintroduction of nursing bursaries.

A search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database between 1 May 2017 and 16 November 2017 has identified that 62 items of correspondence were received about the nursing bursaries in general.

We are not able to identify how many of these were specifically about the reintroduction of nursing bursaries.

This figure represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only.

Between 1 May 2017 and 16 November 2017 my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health has not had any specific meetings with medical professionals or patients on this topic.