Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 45152

Medical Records: Babies

Tabled: 8 April 2025

Answered: 23 April 2025

Named Day

Question

Alistair Strathern

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS services (a) engage with new fathers and (b) record their details alongside the mothers in their baby's health records.

Answer

Karin Smyth

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member for Livingston on 31 March 2025 to Question 38280.