Education (Student Support)

Does the hon. Lady agree that what is important is that we train more nurses and that there are m...

I agree with the hon. Lady that we need to ensure that we have not only more applicants, but more...

Once again it is women who are being hurt, particularly adult women who have brought up a family ...

Forced debt for students and nurses of whatever gender is a really important issue, which I will ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the bottom line is that without applications we cannot train nurse...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right and I congratulate her on her outstanding dedication to nursin...

I am not sure the hon. Lady understands what life is like on a bursary as a student nurse. There ...

I respect the hon. Lady and I pay tribute to her for her work in the NHS as a nurse, but the figu...

Does the hon. Lady agree that in the end, the only people we must care about are the patients? In...

I absolutely agree with the hon. Lady. She is absolutely right to point out that all our focus ha...

The hon. Lady is making a very powerful point, but we need to be very focused with our interventi...

I absolutely agree that we have to make sure that we target interventions and make sure that they...

Does the hon. Lady not agree it is completely wrong to talk about debt in the way she is—in this ...

I am not sure it is my words that are putting people off; I would say the thought of having £50,0...

I started my nurse training in 2000 as a single mum. When I finished, I had £15,000 of debt—and t...

The passion from my hon. Friend reflects how people feel up and down the country. It is funny bec...

The hon. Lady talked about the general election and promises on education and education funding. ...

I should have thought that Conservative Members would have read what was a great manifesto. They ...

I join the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Angela Rayner) in welcoming the opportunity to disc...

I will be supporting my hon. Friend this evening. I welcome what he said about apprentices. I thi...

I was just taking inspiration. Let me explain the route into nursing through apprenticeships. A f...

Will my hon. Friend address the allegation that there are 700 fewer nurses in training?

My right hon. Friend will not be surprised to learn that that is a selective picking of the facts...

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Would the hon. Lady like me to go on or to give way?

Would the Minister confirm the number?

I am happy to confirm that. We now have 13,100 more nurses on wards since 2010 and we have a comm...

Does the Minister therefore challenge the figure of only 30 apprentices and does he recognise tha...

I absolutely recognise that the apprenticeship route will take four years, but the Government hav...

I think my hon. Friend the Minister has forgotten that the Minister for Education, my right hon. ...

I do agree with my hon. Friend. Indeed we have three Ministers from the Department for Education ...

Does the Minister really think that this needs to be an either/or? Could we not do the very good ...

I agree with the hon. Lady that we can do both: we can have the apprenticeship route, but we can ...

The Minister is being typically gracious in giving way. He said in his opening remarks that he wa...

The hon. Gentleman is quoting selectively. He is right to point to 2016, because the number of nu...

Opposition Members seem to be portraying the bursary system as a panacea, but it was not a well-f...

As a nurse, my hon. Friend speaks with great authority and she is right. This is about empowering...

The Minister is right to highlight the university sector but has he, like me, recently visited hi...

As a medic, my hon. Friend alights on an important point that I am happy to pick up. A number of ...

Will the Minister give way?

I have given way quite a lot, so I will make a little progress.

In addressing the Oppositio...

I thank the Minister for meeting me to discuss the concerns raised by the Health Committee in our...

I am grateful for that support from the Chair of the Health Committee. Having spent four years on...

I thank the Minister for the announcement that he has just made. At the nursing college in Chelms...

I am happy to confirm to my hon. Friend that there will be a local element to the targeting of th...

As the Minister says, we are here to discuss removing the bursary from postgraduate nursing stude...

To achieve social justice and deal with the skills deficit, we need a skills revolution. In many ...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that part of the way we might expand the numbers taking the appre...

Like me, my hon. Friend is a big champion of further education and understands it completely. Thi...

My wife was a renal nurse for 15 years, and she says that one of the key changes that happened in...

My hon. Friend is right. My hope is that, rather than 50% of all students just going to universit...

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s work as Chair of the Select Committee on Education. Does he agre...

As so often, my hon. Friend is a mind reader. I will address her point, but of course she is righ...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

This is the last intervention because I am conscious that other people want to speak.

In the light of the poor recruitment to the apprenticeship schemes, does the right hon. Gentleman...

I thought that initially, but I have listened to my hon. Friend the Minister’s arguments. There w...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

This is genuinely the last time I give way. It is impossible to say no to my fellow member of the...

Further the intervention made by my hon. Friend the Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison)...

My hon. Friend is a remarkable member of our Committee and she is right in what she says. It is g...

As Members probably know, I was a nurse until last June. I did 12 years in cardiology and almost ...

My hon. Friend gave many years’ service as a nurse and I am sure she worked with many nurses who ...

I completely agree with that.

There are 40,000 nursing vacancies across the NHS and, for th...

You shouldn’t have.

That is what I had to do to become a nurse. I think I got around £500 of bursary at that time, an...

May I start by declaring that I still work as a nurse on the bank shift, mainly at the Royal Mars...

I have the briefing here, and it does mention it.

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. As a member of the RCN, I, too, have had the briefing...

May I just say to the hon. Member for Lewes (Maria Caulfield) that this is not about scoring poli...

That is the point: despite the fall in the number of applications, the number of placements has a...

Let us see where this goes. The hon. Lady’s point is that it does not matter that there has been ...

The hon. Member for Lewes (Maria Caulfield) asks why not enough nurses were coming through. Is th...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. I say to the Minister that there is hard evidence fro...

I will keep my remarks brief. It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Gedling (Verno...

Order. The hon. Lady is making a serious speech. There should not be so much chuntering going on....

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Martin Lewis’s comments were, it is true, aimed at politic...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will not, because time is short.

Conservative Members will work to fight against the weap...

I remind the House that the motion is subject to double-majority voting of the House, and of Memb...