§ Mr. AmessTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many midwives were employed in the NHS in(a) 1997 and (b) 2002, broken down by health authority. [130955]
§ Mr. HuttonThe information requested is shown in the table. The 1997 health authority data has been mapped into strategic health authority (SHA) area. SHAs were introduced in 2001.
SHA 1997 2002 Norfolk,Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 715 910 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 541 605 Essex 596 644 South Yorkshire 664 649 Trent 959 1,053 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland 632 644 Shropshire and Staffordshire 638 652 Birmingham and The Black Country 1,261 1,234 Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire 720 739 North West London 864 842 North Central London 535 628 North East London 753 724 South East London 721 769 South West London 587 638 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear 699 675 County Durham and Tees Valley 513 566 North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire 703 651 West Yorkshire 1,038 1,021 Cumbria and Lancashire 1,008 985 Greater Manchester 1,683 1,572 Cheshire and Merseyside 1,173 1,276 Thames Valley 876 1,004 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 771 730 Kent and Medway 703 660 Surrey and Sussex 728 1,020 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 1,126 1,091 South West Peninsula 751 797 Dorset and Somerset 427 470 Special health authorities and other statutory bodies 0 0 England 22,385 23,249