Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the age profile was of the NHS midwifery workforce in (a) England and (b) each region of England in the most recent period for which data is available.

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but excludes staff working in primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities and other providers.

The attached table shows the age profile of midwives by headcount working in National Health Service trusts and CCGs in England and NHS regions as of 31 March 2022.