Question follow-through · 13088
Maternity Services: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with NHS England on (a) renewing the national maternity safety ambitions beyond 2025 and (b) amending those ambitions to include reducing inequalities.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 6 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 13 Nov 2024 · 7 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
6 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with NHS England on (a) renewing the national maternity safety ambitions beyond 2025 and (b) amending those ambitions to include reducing inequalities.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Government is committed to ensuring that all women and babies received safe, personalised, equitable, and compassionate care. I am urgently considering, with my officials and NHS England, the immediate action needed across maternity and neonatal servi...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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