Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government when they will make the next quarterly claimant data for Maternity Allowance available.

A new operational system to record Maternity Allowance cases is currently being developed. As such, Maternity Allowance statistics have been suspended from the quarterly statistics release until data can be extracted from the new system.

Analysts are currently unable to provide a timescale for when the Maternity Allowance statistics will be reinstated, as work to develop the statistics from the new system is in very early stages. Users will be updated of progress via the Maternity Allowance statistics page and the DWP Statistical Work Programme page on GOV.UK.