questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to MBRRACE-UK's report entitled UK Perinatal Deaths for Births from January to December 2021, published in September 2023, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's polices of that report's finding that neonatal mortality increased in 2021 across all gestational age groups.
answerText: We take the findings of the recent MBRRACE-UK report extremely seriously. Between 2010 and 2022, the stillbirth rate had reduced by 23%, and the neonatal mortality rate for babies born over the 24-week gestational age of viability had reduced by 30%. We a...
heading: Neonatal Mortality