Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish information his Department holds from UCAS on the number of applications for undergraduate nursing degrees starting in (a) September 2017 and (b) each of the last five years.

The Department does not currently hold UCAS information on the number of applications for undergraduate nursing degrees starting in September 2017.

Information on the number of applications for previous years is published via UCAS end of cycle reports and subject level tables. The table below provide numbers of applications for the B7 nursing undergraduate category from 2007 onwards.

Subject Group (Detailed Level)

Number of Applications by Cycle Year

The following link provides the UCAS end of cycle data and reports:

https://www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis/ucas-undergraduate-releases/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources