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Mr. Amess
To 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. Hutton
The 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 |