Dental Services and Prescriptions: Pregnancy

(asked on 14th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of maternity exemption certificates that were issued in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 20th December 2023

The following table shows the number of maternity exemption certificates issued between 2019 and 2023 to date:

Calendar Year

Maternity Exemption Certificates Issued

2019

483,299

2020

444,670

2021

463,214

2022

471,603

2023 (as of 15 December)

524,279

Source: NHS Business Services Authority

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