Maternity Allowance

(asked on 3rd September 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the change in the number of maternity allowance starts between 2016-17 and the second half of 2020-21.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 8th September 2021

No assessment has been made. However, any change will be contributed to by the total fertility rate, which has decreased in recent years.

  • The total fertility rate decreased for the seventh consecutive year:

Births in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

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