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584126

registered interest
date	15/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that ending the NHS bursaries for nurses does not deter people from training to be a mental health nurse.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	46598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>We expect this reform to enable universities to provide up to 10,000 additional training places to study pre-registration nursing, midwifery and the allied health subjects including mental health nursing.</p><p> </p><p>In order to meet National Health Service workforce supply requirements, Health Education England will retain responsibility for workforce planning to ensure that the right number of trained staff are available for the NHS.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 10/10/2016 10:29:57 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

582682

registered interest
date	13/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many applicants there were for the three-year full-time graduate nursing programmes to start in autumn 2016; how many students have been offered and accepted places to commence study in 2016; how many (1) applicants, and (2) accepted offers, there were for each year from 2011 to 2015; and what is their assessment of the trends over the past six years.
tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
uin	HL1865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>Information relating to the number of applicants for, and admissions to, pre-registration nursing programmes is not collected by the Department.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Information on applications and admissions to full time education courses in the United Kingdom is collected by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 16/09/2016 11:58:51 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough

577529

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that changes to the funding of nursing education will (a) increase the number and (b) improve the quality of clinical placements for students.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	45505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The changes to healthcare education funding from August 2017 means that we can move away from centrally imposed controls on numbers of nurses being trained and financial limitations, enabling universities to increase nurse training places by the end of the parliament, 2020.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As now, ensuring that all students have access to high quality placements and receive an outstanding placement experience is a key priority.</p><p> </p><p>Having a stable placement commissioning system is important for workforce supply and for Higher Education Institutes; therefore Health Education England (HEE) will retain responsibility for commissioning the minimum number of placements for 2017/18. Universities will be free to create additional places on top of these in partnership with their local trusts and will have their HEE-funded placements maintained at existing levels.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to monitoring data regarding, for example, application rates, diversity statistics and workforce supply.</p><p> </p><p>The first part of the government response to the consultation included a revised Economic Impact Assessment, page 16 sets out the Monitoring and Evaluation plan, the link is:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changing-how-healthcare-education-is-funded%20%20%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changing-how-healthcare-education-is-funded </a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 45500 question first answered 16/09/2016 12:03:52 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

577547

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department will take to monitor the number of UCAS applications for nursing courses in the next two years; and what contingency planning his Department has undertaken to address any reduction in the number of such applications in that period.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	45500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The changes to healthcare education funding from August 2017 means that we can move away from centrally imposed controls on numbers of nurses being trained and financial limitations, enabling universities to increase nurse training places by the end of the parliament, 2020.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As now, ensuring that all students have access to high quality placements and receive an outstanding placement experience is a key priority.</p><p> </p><p>Having a stable placement commissioning system is important for workforce supply and for Higher Education Institutes; therefore Health Education England (HEE) will retain responsibility for commissioning the minimum number of placements for 2017/18. Universities will be free to create additional places on top of these in partnership with their local trusts and will have their HEE-funded placements maintained at existing levels.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to monitoring data regarding, for example, application rates, diversity statistics and workforce supply.</p><p> </p><p>The first part of the government response to the consultation included a revised Economic Impact Assessment, page 16 sets out the Monitoring and Evaluation plan, the link is:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changing-how-healthcare-education-is-funded%20%20%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changing-how-healthcare-education-is-funded </a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 45505 question first answered 16/09/2016 12:03:52 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

536276

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many qualified UK applicants to study nursing at higher education institutions in England for academic year 2015-16 were rejected; and how many such applicants have been rejected for the 2016-17 academic year.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	42763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>Information relating to the number of applications and rejections for pre-registration nursing and midwifery training is not collected by the Department.</p><p> </p><p>Information on applications and admissions to full time education courses in the United Kingdom is collected by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 18/07/2016 15:34:36 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

533387

registered interest
date	06/07/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make it his policy that student maintenance loan payments are paid on a monthly basis to nursing students.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	42032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>Full-time students starting nursing courses from 1 August 2017 will qualify for the same loans for living costs as other new full-time undergraduate students in 2017/18. Loans for living costs are paid to students in three equal instalments at the start of each term to help meet up-front costs while studying.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 11/07/2016 15:54:16 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

533389

registered interest
date	06/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the removal of nursing bursaries on the living costs of nursing students who live outside their parental home.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	42033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2016 answer text <p>A preliminary Economic Impact Assessment and Equality Analysis was published alongside the public consultation launched on 7 April 2016. These documents address the proportion of repayment expected, the impact on students with different characteristics, including those who live outside the parental home and the benefit that extra support will have for those on low incomes and from disadvantaged backgrounds.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 13/07/2016 13:38:13 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

532940

registered interest
date	05/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential effect of the change in student funding for nurses on the number of people applying to study nursing; and what the potential effect on the NHS will be.
tabling member constituency	Ribble Valley
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Evans
uin	41901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>A preliminary Economic Impact Assessment and Equality Analysis was published alongside the public consultation launched on 7 April 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The Government assessment shows that nursing is consistently one of the most popular courses on University Central Administration Service with 57,000 applicants for around 20,000 nursing places in 2014. Midwifery and Allied Health Professional courses receive higher than average applications as well.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 11/07/2016 08:07:45 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	474 label Biography information for Mr Nigel Evans

524271

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2016 to Question 37125, whether his Department has any plans to collect data on the number of student nurses that have already studied for a degree before entering nurse training.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	40189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to introduce a new central data collection on the number of student nurses that have already studied for a degree before entering nurse training.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 14/06/2016 14:53:34 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

523984

registered interest
date	08/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of first year students enrolled onto undergraduate-level nursing degrees in England are studying part-time.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	39949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not collect data on the proportion of first year students studying part-time undergraduate-level nursing degrees.</p><p>Health Education England (HEE) for this academic year so far has recorded the figures for part-time first year nursing students in training. As at the end of 31 March 2016, 19,451 students are currently enrolled as first year nursing students and 177 of those are part time. This does not include midwifery and HEE has no data prior to this academic year.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 13/06/2016 16:35:11 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed