RENT INCREASES FOR STUDENT NURSES AT LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY

That this House condemns the decision of Leicester Royal Infirmary Trust to increase the rents of new student nurses from ú12.25 per week to ú32 per week, an increase of 250 per cent.; notes that existing student nurses are fearful and anxious that the proposed rent increases will be extended to them; and calls upon the Secretary of State for Health either to continue to subsidise through central Government funds rents for student nurses or to support an increase in the bursary of student nurses from ú83.07 per week to pay for the rent increases.