§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the answer of 21 October 2002,Official Report, column 128W, on social workers, if he will provide the provisional recruitment and departure figures referred to. [78832]
§ Jacqui SmithThe number of individual applicants for social work training was 4703 in 2001. The provisional figure for 2002 is 5093.
The 2002 figure is adjusted to an estimated full year figure based on the very small number of additional applications made after October in 2001.
We do not collect centrally figures on retirements.