Question follow-through · 60022
Maternity Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing free hypnobirthing classes to pregnant women.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jul 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing free hypnobirthing classes to pregnant women.
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jul 2025
Answer published
The majority of trusts already offer free antenatal education services. A National Health Service online tool is available for women and families to find a class local to them. These classes include support for pregnant women to make a birth plan, conside...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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