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.
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