Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the £95 million of additional investment for maternity funding announced in the NHS Operational Planning Guidance published in March 2021, how many additional midwives have been recruited since the publication of that guidance.

This information is not held centrally in the format requested. However, data on the number of midwives and obstetricians as of July 2022 is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/july-2022