Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 67697

Maternity Services: Inquiries

Tabled: 14 July 2025

Answered: 17 July 2025

Named Day

Question

Mike Martin

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of expanding the scope of the maternity care inquiry to include the limitations of coroners’ powers to hold inquests into stillbirths.

Answer

Karin Smyth

My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, recently announced an independent, national investigation into National Health Service maternity and neonatal services, to look at the systemic issues behind why so many women, babies, ...

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