Question follow-through · 10962
Maternity Services: Reviews
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many major reviews into NHS maternity services have been undertaken since 2000.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jul 2026 · 25 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
17 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many major reviews into NHS maternity services have been undertaken since 2000.
22 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jul 2026
Answer published
There have been six widely recognised major reviews into National Health Service maternity services since 2000, with the caveat that there is no definition of "major review”, which are as follows:- the Morecambe Bay Investigation led by Bill Kirkup i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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