Speeches

Maria Caulfield – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Maria Caulfield on 2015-11-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total cost was to his Department of training student midwives in each of the last 10 years.

Ben Gummer

Information prior to 2013/14 is not held centrally by the Department.

Detailed below is an estimate of planned expenditure costs to Health Education England of providing training to student midwives since 2013/14.

Year

New Students Commissioned

Planned Students in training

Estimate Cost (million)

2013/14

2,563

6,874

£102.2m

2014/15

2,603

6,624

£120.8m

2015/16

2,617

7,058

£130.6m

Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns