{"value":{"id":1908784,"askingMemberId":4032,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2026-05-21T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2026-06-01T00:00:00","uin":"3768","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to align the number of nursing training places with the number of NHS posts available to newly qualified nurses.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4444,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2026-06-01T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Training places for nurses are not centrally commissioned by Government. Instead, they are determined by local employers and education providers who decide the number of learners they admit based on learner demand and provider capacity.</p><p>We are improving workforce planning to align job vacancies with the anticipated supply of graduating students. NHS England is actively monitoring future student numbers and using a student movement dashboard to enable regional NHS England teams, universities, and employers to understand where future vacancies will arise and signpost newly graduated students towards these roles. NHS England will also continue to assess the efficacy of the graduate guarantee as a mechanism to ensure that all future workforce supply matches demand.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Nurses: Training","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1908784","method":"GET"}]}