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Midwives: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of midwives.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
3 Mar 2025
Answer
4 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 26 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of midwives.

  2. 3 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 4 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    We will publish a refreshed Long Term Workforce Plan which will deliver the transformed health service we will build over the next decade, to ensure that the National Health Service has the right people, including midwives, in the right places, with the r...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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