Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to manage an increase in the birth rate in Ealing Local Authority Area.

We are advised that the Office for National Statistics projects no significant change to the birth rate in Ealing over the next five years.

Health Education England (HEE) has set out how it intends to invest £5 billion in education and training programmes in its Workforce Plan for England. This investment will help improve the quality of care by ensuring that the National Health Service workforce has the right numbers, skills, values and behaviours to meet the needs of patients.

HEE is commissioning more education and training than ever before, with over 50,000 doctors in training and over 37,000 new training opportunities for nurses, scientists, and therapists.