Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many training places for health visitors have been (a) commissioned and (b) filled in each financial year since 2010-11.
The number of planned health visitor training places, along with the number of entrants in England each year is shown in following table.
Number of planned training commissions against entrants for health visitor programmes in England
Entry year | Planned commissions | Entrants |
2010-11 | - | 545 |
2011-12 | - | 1,606 |
2012-13 | - | 2,266 |
2013-14 | - | 2,787 |
2014-15 | 1,041 | 1,159 |
2015-16 | 1,193 | 884 |
2016-17 | 817 | 539 |
2017-18 | - | 448 |
Source: Health Education England, Financial Management System records (until 2012-13) and Education Commissioning (EdCom) dataset (after 2012-13)
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