Question follow-through · 5175
Neonatal Mortality and Sudden Unexplained Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will launch a nationwide review of neonatal (a) mortality rates and (b) unexplained deaths.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 19 Sept 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will launch a nationwide review of neonatal (a) mortality rates and (b) unexplained deaths.
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Government has no current plans to launch a nationwide review of neonatal mortality rates and unexplained deaths. Professor Lord Darzi’s report on his independent investigation of the National Health Service in England has shone a light on the critica...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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