Maternity Payments

(asked on 18th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women have received the Sure Start maternity grant in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 30th April 2019

The number of Sure Start Maternity Grant awards in Great Britain is reported annually in Appendix 1 of the Social Fund Annual Report:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-fund-annual-report-2017-to-2018

The number of Sure Start Maternity Grant awards are provided in the table below.

Number of Sure Start Maternity Grant awards, 2010/11 to 2017/18

Year

Number of awards

2010/11

257,000

2011/12

89,000

2012/13

77,000

2013/14

73,000

2014/15

66,000

2015/16

59,000

2016/17

55,000

2017/18

50,500

As of 24 January 2011, Sure Start Maternity Grants are provided for the birth of the recipient’s first child only. Previously it was payable for the birth of each child.

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