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Baroness Byford – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Byford on 2015-12-16.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many veterinarians qualified in each of the last 10 years, broken down by gender.

Lord Gardiner of Kimble

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the regulatory body for the veterinary profession in the UK, has confirmed that the breakdown of new UK registrants for the each of the last 10 years is as follows:-

Year

Gender

Count

Total per year

2005

F

828

2005

M

490

=1318

2006

F

910

2006

M

458

=1368

2007

F

913

2007

M

488

=1401

2008

F

920

2008

M

391

=1311

2009

F

921

2009

M

351

=1272

2010

F

963

2010

M

358

=1321

2011

F

1041

2011

M

425

=1466

2012

F

1084

2012

M

461

=1545

2013

F

1103

2013

M

499

=1602

2014

F

1166

2014

M

504

=1670

2015

F

1442

2015

M

632

=2074