Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to allow the abolition of bursaries for students attending degree courses in nursing, midwifery and allied health professions; and what the timetable for implementation of such proposals will be.
The reforms to pre-registration healthcare education funding, for introduction on 1 August 2017, will not require amendments to the legislation under which the National Health Service bursary is provided.