Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS midwives there were aged 70 or older in each of the last 10 years.

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care, general practice surgeries, local authorities or other providers.

The following table shows the number of National Health Service.

Midwives aged 70 years old and over in NHS trusts and CCGs in England, as at 30 November each year, 2010 to 2020, headcount.