Question follow-through · 67697
Maternity Services: Inquiries
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of expanding the scope of the maternity care inquiry to include the limitations of coroners’ powers to hold inquests into stillbirths.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jul 2025 · 3 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
14 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of expanding the scope of the maternity care inquiry to include the limitations of coroners’ powers to hold inquests into stillbirths.
17 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jul 2025
Answer published
My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, recently announced an independent, national investigation into National Health Service maternity and neonatal services, to look at the systemic issues behind why so many women, babies, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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