Question follow-through · 77115
Maternity Services: Public Inquiries
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press notice entitled 14 NHS trusts the focus of national maternity investigation, published on 15 September 2025, what criteria his Department used to decide which NHS Trusts
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 15 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 13 Oct 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press notice entitled 14 NHS trusts the focus of national maternity investigation, published on 15 September 2025, what criteria his Department used to decide which NHS Trusts
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Department has not selected which trusts to include in the independent maternity and neonatal investigation.The 14 NHS trusts were selected by the independent investigation based on a variety of factors, including results from the Care Quality Commiss...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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