Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the gender breakdown is of maternity services staff for each NHS trust.

NHS England publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England which include information on the gender of staff. The data is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record, the human resources system for the National Health Service. Further information is available at the following link:

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

The attached table presents data drawn from the underlying Electronic Staff Record information which is used by NHS England to produce the monthly NHS Workforce Statistics as the publication routinely presents data on the gender of staff by their staffing group but does not present this information broken down by individual organisation or the care setting or specialism staff are working in.

Staff working in maternity services have been defined as doctors working in the specialty area of obstetrics and gynaecology, midwives, nurses working either maternity or neonatal nursing settings, and patient facing support staff working in either maternity services or neonatal nursing settings.