Question follow-through · 60960
Midwives: Recruitment and Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding he plans to allocate to midwife (a) training and (b) recruitment in the next 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 18 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 27 Jun 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding he plans to allocate to midwife (a) training and (b) recruitment in the next 12 months.
20 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jun 2025
Answer published
The NHS Education and Training tariff funds clinical midwife placements at approximately £5,000 per full time equivalent post. The rate is adjusted by the Market Forces Factor and varies by region. In addition, eligible midwifery students can apply for th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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