United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 29472
Perinatal Mortality
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6 February 2025
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12 February 2025 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his Department's policy that babies in the third trimester that have been removed from their mother after her death should not be (a) recognised and (b) recorded as stillborn.
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6 February 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his Department's policy that babies in the third trimester that have been removed from their mother after her death should not be (a) recognised and (b) recorded as stillborn.
Source: Commons
12 February 2025
Answer
The definition of a stillborn child in England and Wales is contained in the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 section 41, and was amended by the Stillbirth (Definition) Act 1992 section 1(1). This act defines a stillbirth as ‘a child which has issu...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-02-06/29472
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1762874
- uk · wq-1762874 · source updated 12 February 2025