Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason there has been a reduction in the per-placement funding support for the nursing degree course at the University of Suffolk.

Placement funding for nursing degree courses is paid to placement providers by Health Education England in line with a nationally agreed tariff price. The tariff payment rate has not changed since April 2017 and remains fixed at £3,112 per year for each whole time equivalent placement.

Tariff payments also attract a market forces factor payment, an additional payment to compensate for unavoidable cost differences between healthcare providers, based on their geographical location.