PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pharmacy: Training (5 December 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many pharmacist training places have been available in each of the last five years; and how many pharmacists have taken up these training places.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

The number of training places for pharmacists in England is uncapped and determined each year by health education providers. The following table shows the number of trainees accepted and started on Masters of Pharmacy courses:

	Students accepted (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service)	Starters in first year (Higher Education Statistics Agency)
2022/23	3,590	n/a
2021/22	3,495	3,545
2020/21	3,085	3,105
2019/20	2,945	2,830
2018/19	2,875	3,105

Answered by:
Andrea Leadsom (Conservative)
14 December 2023