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Nurses: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the (a) number of students who graduated in nursing and (b) number and proportion of those graduates who were employed within six months in the last four ye

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
3 Jul 2025
Target answer date
7 Jul 2025
Answer
9 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the (a) number of students who graduated in nursing and (b) number and proportion of those graduates who were employed within six months in the last four ye

  2. 7 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) publishes information on the number of United Kingdom trained nurses joining their register for the first time, who are resident in England. The following table shows the number of UK trained nurses joining the NMC ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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