Maternity Allowance and Maternity Pay

(asked on 20th April 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people started receiving (a) statutory maternity pay and (b) maternity allowance in each quarter since April 2016.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 27th April 2020

DWP does not hold information on the number of people who started receiving Statutory Maternity Pay in each quarter. The latest annual estimate is that around 360,000 women commenced Statutory Maternity Payments in 2018/2019.

Information on the number of Maternity Allowance claims commencing in each quarter is published and is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/maternity-allowance-quarterly-statistics

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