Question follow-through · 58197
Babies: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many babies were born with conditions not picked up during screening tests in each of the last ten years for which data is available.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2025 · 8 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
9 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many babies were born with conditions not picked up during screening tests in each of the last ten years for which data is available.
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2025
Answer published
The information requested is not held centrally. There is no specific field in the Maternity Services Dataset (MSDS) to capture screening results. Screening tests offered during pregnancy can be captured in MSDS via SNOMED codes, however information relat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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