Question follow-through · 50601
Brain: Injuries
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the prevalence of infant brain injuries at childbirth.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the prevalence of infant brain injuries at childbirth.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
The Department has invested £7.8 million to develop the Avoiding Brain Injury in Childbirth programme, which will reduce the number of avoidable brain injuries that occur during childbirth. This will be implemented by NHS England and will provide staff wi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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