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Maternity Services

Commons · Question 94509 · Tabled 25 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 2 Dec 2025

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Asked by Freddie van Mierlo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the National Maternity Taskforce includes balanced representation between (a) professional bodies and (b) families with lived experience of matern

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 2 Dec 2025

The National Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce, chaired by my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, will be made of up a breadth of expertise. This will include people who bring clinical and international perspectives, those wh...