Question follow-through · 9375

Children: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason his Department's Notification of Child Death Form asks about the gender with which the child identified at the time of their death in cases where the child was over 10; and whether

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
15 Oct 2024
Target answer date
17 Oct 2024
Answer
2 Dec 2024 · 48 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason his Department's Notification of Child Death Form asks about the gender with which the child identified at the time of their death in cases where the child was over 10; and whether

  2. 17 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The Notification of Child Death Form, part of the National Child Mortality Database, continues to capture the sex of the child for anyone under the age of 18 years old, in line with sex being a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.Although...

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