Midwives: Manpower Norman Lamb To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent midwives the NHS employed in each strategic health authority area in each year since 2005. Ann Keen The number of full-time equivalent midwives in each strategic health authority area in each year since 2005 is set out in the following table. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Full-time equivalent | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | |2005|2006|2007|2008| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |England |18,949|18,862|19,298|19,639| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ||||| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |North East strategic health authority area |1,011|1,003|1,025|1,063| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |North West strategic health authority area |3,094|3,138|3,111|3,032| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Yorkshire and the Humber strategic health authority area |2,047|1,906|1,942|1,947| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |East Midlands strategic health authority area |1,310|1,294|1,322|1,351| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |West Midlands strategic health authority area |2,123|2,092|2,171|2,177| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |East of England strategic health authority area |1,725|1,742|1,806|1,801| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |London strategic health authority area |3,326|3,442|3,499|3,751| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |South East Coast strategic health authority area |1,320|1,325|1,382|1,413| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |South Central strategic health authority area |1,187|1,145|1,255|1,301| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |South West strategic health authority area |1,806|1,774|1,786|1,803| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Note:Figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.Source:The Information Centre Non-Medical Workforce Census.||||| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------