Question follow-through · 74928
Maternity Services: Reviews
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects the rapid national investigation into NHS maternity and neonatal services to make its initial set of recommendations.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 23 Sept 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects the rapid national investigation into NHS maternity and neonatal services to make its initial set of recommendations.
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Sept 2025
Answer published
In June 2025, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced an independent investigation into National Health Service maternity and neonatal services, which will be chaired by Baroness Amos.The investigation will produce an initial set of na...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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