Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many students a) started and b) successfully completed a midwifery degree in i) 2025, ii) 2024, iii) 2023, iv) 2022, v) 2021, vi) 2020 and vii) 2019.

The number of starters on midwifery courses in England is collected and published by the Office for Students in its Higher Education Students Early Statistics survey. The data is available at the following link:

https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/data-and-analysis/supplying-data/data-collection/get-the-heses-data/

For the 2025/26 academic year, summary table 4 gives a breakdown by the profession of the course, with prior years the equivalent data being on table 6. Tables can be filtered to included or exclude those on post graduate courses.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) publishes data on the number of qualifiers from undergraduate midwifery courses in England. This data is available at the following link in the table “HE qualifiers by subject of study and permanent address”:

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/outcomes#qualifiers

The Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) filter can be used to find Midwifery qualifiers and the data can be filtered to include or exclude those on post graduate courses. Data is currently available up to the 2024/25 academic year.