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Midwives: Redundancy

Volume 481: debated on Tuesday 28 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS midwives have received redundancy notices in (a) Peterborough, (b) Cambridge and (c) England in the last two years. (229453)

There have been no compulsory redundancies for national health service midwives in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire in the last two years. The total number of NHS midwives to receive compulsory redundancy notices in the last two years in England is listed in the following table:

Period

Total number of compulsory redundancies for midwives

Total number of compulsory redundancies (all groups)

2006-07

7

2,330

2007-08

1

2,223