PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Nurses: Stockport (7 March 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the impact of the removal of the nursing bursary on the recruitment of nurses in Stockport since that bursary ended.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

No assessment has been made. As of November 2021, 1,326 nurses are employed at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust - an increase of 127 or 10.6% since November 2020.

The Government has committed to delivering 50,000 more nurses in England by the end of this Parliament. This will be achieved through a combination of improving the domestic training pipelines, international recruitment and focusing on retention of existing staff. We have made available non-repayable training grants to eligible nurses worth at least £5,000 per year.

Answered by:
Edward Argar (Conservative)
10 March 2022