Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nursing students there were in each year since 2010.
The table below shows the number of nursing students in training in any year of a nursing degree between 2010/11 and 2016/17.
Academic year | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
Number of nursing students | 52,836 | 51,713 | 52,811 | No data | 50,139 | 51,386 | 52,606 |
Notes:
- Information prior to 2013 was sourced using the Department’s Financial Information Management System. Data collected after 2013 is sourced using the Health Education England EDCOM (Education Commissioning) reports.
- Data for the 2013/14 academic years are not available due to commissioning moving from the Department to Health Education England.
- Student numbers are recorded as of March in each academic year.
- Data for 2017/18 are not yet available.