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Perinatal Mortality

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his Department's policy that babies in the third trimester that have been removed from their mother after her death should not be (a) recognised and (b) recorded as stillborn.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
12 Feb 2025
Answer
12 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his Department's policy that babies in the third trimester that have been removed from their mother after her death should not be (a) recognised and (b) recorded as stillborn.

  2. 12 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The definition of a stillborn child in England and Wales is contained in the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 section 41, and was amended by the Stillbirth (Definition) Act 1992 section 1(1). This act defines a stillbirth as ‘a child which has issu...

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