Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department will allow the submission of a Matex certificate application after a woman has miscarried to be backdated to cover the period of time that the woman was pregnant.

A maternity exemption certificate start date is automatically backdated one month from the date the application is received. A maternity exemption certificate start date cannot be backdated further under any circumstances. There are no plans to amend the period for which maternity exemption certificates can be backdated.