§ 36. Mrs. HealTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to increase the number of places available for nurse training. [115185]
§ Mr. DenhamWe provided increased investment to enable us to deliver 6,000 new nurse training places by 2002. This target was based upon delivering 1,000 of those new places in 1999–2000, but we are now planning to deliver around 1,600. Further investment will enable us to provide an additional 1,000 nurse and midwifery pre-registration training places in 2000–01.