Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was paid in (a) tuition fee loans and (b) maintenance loans with respect to students undertaking undergraduate midwifery courses (a) in total and (b) on average per student midwife in each academic year since 2016-17; and what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of such loans that will be repaid by people who received them.

Information on the loans paid to students on higher education courses is published annually by the Student Loans Company in the statistics publication Student Support for Higher Education in England.

https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx.

A breakdown of these statistics by subject of study is not available.

Information on the proportion of student loans not expected to be repaid is published annually by the department in the statistics publication Student Loan Forecasts, England.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2017-to-2018.

A breakdown of these statistics by subject of study is not available.