Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the £95 million of additional funding for maternity services in England announced by her Department in 2021, how many of the additional (a) 1,200 midwives and (b) 100 obstetricians have been recruited to the NHS in England as of 10 October 2022.

This information is not held centrally in the format requested. However, data on the number of midwives and obstetricians as of July 2022 is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/july-2022