Lord Hunt of Kings Heath – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 2016-01-19.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the planned replacement of student bursaries by loans, what estimate they have made of the number of additional students who will be accepted into universities for nursing degree courses in 2017–18.

Baroness Evans of Bowes Park

We expect this reform to enable universities to provide up to 10,000 additional nursing, midwifery and allied health training places over this parliament.