To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many training places for health visitors have been (a) commissioned and (b) filled in each financial year since 2010-11.

The number of planned health visitor training places, along with the number of entrants in England each year is shown in following table.

Number of planned training commissions against entrants for health visitor programmes in England

Source: Health Education England, Financial Management System records (until 2012-13) and Education Commissioning (EdCom) dataset (after 2012-13)

Notes:

1. Data up until 2012-13 is based on financial years. Data after 2012-13 is only available in academic years.
2. Data on planned commissions is only available for years 2014-15 to 2016-17.
3. Planned commissions are provisional and so not necessarily equal to the actual number of training places available.