Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the reasons why midwives left employment in the NHS in England in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
NHS Digital publishes data on leavers and the reasons for leaving. The information is presented in the attached table.
Since May 2010, we have over 2,300 more midwives working in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups as at Novermber 2016.