Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 76621

Maternity Services

Tabled: 11 September 2025
Answered: 17 October 2025
Named Day

Question

Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

LabourSlough

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on (a) providing maternity care and (b) settling legal cases of medical negligence related to maternity care in each of the last four years.

Answer

Karin Smyth
In regard to maternity care spend, according to the Patient-Level Costing dataset from the National Cost Collection for the National Health Service, the annual spend for providing maternity care was as follows:£4,855,676,069.19 for 2021/22;£4,722,376,594....

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