Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people applied for undergraduate pre-registration midwifery courses in each year since 2015.
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) publish data on the number of applicants to midwifery courses in England. The number of applicants between 2018-19 and 2021-22 are shown in the table below.
| 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 |
Applicants | 8,140 | 8,750 | 11,040 | 10,340 |
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Source: UCAS end of cycle 2022, published at the following link:
Published UCAS data only covers the period from 2018-19 onwards.