Question follow-through · 15539
Nurses: Universities
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the levels of applications to nursing university courses.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the levels of applications to nursing university courses.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2024
Answer published
The following table shows the number of applicants, by the June deadline, to undergraduate nursing courses, for all domiciles, in England, each year from 2019 to 2024:YearApplicants201931,780202037,990202145,740202243,170202336,400202433,560Source: publis...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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