Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Conservative Party manifesto 2019 and the background briefing to the Queen's Speech, how many of the 50,000 more nurses will be (a) mental health nurses, (b) learning disability nurses and (c) nurses from other disciplines.
The announcement made on the 18 December 2019 is to increase the nursing workforce by 50,000 by 2025 in total across all nursing disciplines which includes mental health and learning disability nursing.