Question follow-through · 3766
Nurses: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the number of Band 5 nursing posts available to newly qualified nurses in England.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jun 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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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
21 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the number of Band 5 nursing posts available to newly qualified nurses in England.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jun 2026
Answer published
Training places for nurses are not centrally commissioned by Government. Instead, they are determined by local employers and education providers who decide the number of learners they admit based on learner demand and provider capacity.We are improving wo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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