Question follow-through · 30274
Nurses: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of entry level nursing roles.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 13 Feb 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of entry level nursing roles.
13 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Feb 2025
Answer published
Decisions about recruitment, including for entry level nursing roles, are matters for individual National Health Service trusts. NHS trusts manage their recruitment at a local level, ensuring they have the right number of staff in place, with the right sk...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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