§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many midwives have left the NHS in each of the last five years on account of(a) normal retirement age, (b) early retirement, (c) ill health, (d) transfer to other NHS posts and (e) other causes. [59411]
§ Mr. HuttonThe information requested is not collected centrally.
The Department's non-medical workforce census records the net change in the number of midwives employed in the National Health Service. There were 700 more midwives working in the NHS at September 2001 than there were in September 1997.