Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many midwives per 1,000 births there were in each region of England in each of the last 10 years.
The number of midwives per 1,000 births (live and stillborn combined) has grown from 29.7 in 2004 to 32.6 in 2014. The table attached provides the available detail by region as collected by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.