Speeches

Catherine West – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Catherine West on 2016-10-18.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications HM Revenue and Customs has processed under the NHS Widening Access Training Scheme for each year in which that Scheme has been active.

Jane Ellison

HM Revenue and Customs only hold records of the number of NHS applications under the widening access fund for the tax year 2013/14 onwards. As at 19 October a total of 16,762 applications have been processed as follows:

Year

Number of applications

2013/14

253

2014/15

1,116

2015/16

4,175

2016/17

11,218