Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2016 to Question 22318, what estimate his Department has made of the total value of NHS Bursaries issued to medical students in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Information of the total value of National Health Service maintenance bursaries issued to medical students in each of the last five complete financial years is shown in the following table.

Source: NHS Business Services Authority

¹Covers the period 1 April to 31 March.

²Figures extracted from Annual Report for the respective financial year.

³The NHS Bursary includes the basic maintenance award, all supplementary allowances and one off payments.

NHS Bursaries are available to undergraduate medical students from the fifth year of the undergraduate degree and to graduates from the second year of the four year accelerated degree.