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Department for Work and Pensions |
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answers of 23
February 2022 to Question 125365 and 8 March 2022 to Question 134067 on Maternity
Allowance, and with reference to the data on Statutory Maternity Pay starts provided
by HMRC in Freedom of Information Act responses dated 5 June 2019 (FOI2019/01113)
and 24 September 2021 (FOI2021/20932), what assessment she has made of the reasons
for the absence of any decline in the number of Statutory Maternity Pay starts over
the period in which the number of grants of Maternity Allowance to employed women
has fallen by 45 per cent.
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