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Maternity Services: Fathers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to improve the quality of stay for fathers in the maternity ward.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
31 Oct 2025
Target answer date
4 Nov 2025
Answer
1 Dec 2025 · 31 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to improve the quality of stay for fathers in the maternity ward.

  2. 4 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 1 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    When a mother chooses to have support from the father or partner during labour, birth, and in the postnatal period, the father or partner should feel welcome to stay with her. Where possible, fathers or partners are offered a chair or fold up bed to enabl...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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