PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Perinatal Mortality: Ethnic Groups (4 June 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the disparities of race and ethnicity enclosed in the latest still birth data published by the ONS.

Asked by:
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)

The Chief Midwifery Officer for England is leading work to reduce health inequalities around maternal and perinatal mortality. NHS England and NHS Improvement are also working to develop an equity strategy that will focus on reducing disparities. In January, the Department launched a £7.6 million Health and Wellbeing Fund which aims to reduce health inequalities among new mothers and babies.

Answered by:
Ms Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
10 June 2021