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Lords Chamber
MBRRACE-UK Report 2025 - Thu 23 Oct 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, although the maternal mortality rate has slightly decreased recently, this report makes it - Speech Link
2: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) This Government are committed to closing the black and Asian maternal mortality gap. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) This was the case even though minority-ethnic women have poorer outcomes. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Health and Social Care Committee - Thu 16 Oct 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Paulette Hamilton (Lab - Birmingham Erdington) progress in this area, but I stress that the reduction is partly due to worsening outcomes for other groups - Speech Link
2: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab - Aylesbury) Black women are twice as likely as white women to be hospitalised with mental illness during the perinatal - Speech Link
3: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) Does she agree that we need to have a wider conversation about healthcare for black and ethnic minority - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Baby Loss - Mon 13 Oct 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Andy MacNae (Lab - Rossendale and Darwen) ends in miscarriage.Crucially, these family tragedies are not shared equally throughout society; ethnic - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds Central and Headingley) Like Nottinghamshire, Leeds has high mortality rates—in fact, they are the highest in the UK and 70% - Speech Link
3: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab - Clapham and Brixton Hill) It is because the UK’s overall maternity mortality figures are rising. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Preterm Birth Committee Report - Fri 06 Jun 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Patel (XB - Life peer) advisers, including Eleri Adams, consultant neonatologist and president of the British Association of Perinatal - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) Preterm births disproportionately affect marginalised groups. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge (Con - Life peer) mortality by up to half for preterm babies, yet it has not been implemented consistently. - Speech Link
4: Lord Weir of Ballyholme (DUP - Life peer) In human history, not that long ago, mortality rates for babies and mothers were extremely high. - Speech Link
5: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Preterm birth remains among the most pressing issues in perinatal healthcare. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Black Maternal Health Awareness Week - Tue 29 Apr 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) groups in the wider population. - Speech Link
2: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) The latest data from MBRRACE-UK shows maternal mortality rates for women from black ethnic backgrounds - Speech Link
3: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) More than a quarter of the partnership leads are from ethnic minority groups. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Women’s Health - Thu 27 Feb 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Alice Macdonald (LAB - Norwich North) factors also come into play: inequalities are stark when it comes to access and outcomes for black and ethnic - Speech Link
2: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD - Chichester) women in England had experienced harm as a result of vaginal mesh implants, although campaigning groups - Speech Link
3: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) We know from the last 10 years that the maternal mortality gap has reduced from five times to two times - Speech Link
4: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) Friend the Member for Dudley (Sonia Kumar), who has expert knowledge of perinatal pelvic health services - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Maternity Services - Tue 25 Feb 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Beccy Cooper (Lab - Worthing West) In that context, we see stagnating progress on improving stillbirth and maternal mortality rates not - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) Black women are more than twice as likely to die than white ones, and other ethnic groups also carry - Speech Link
3: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) minority groups living in the most deprived areas. - Speech Link
4: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) Hospitals carry out internal perinatal mortality reviews, which aim to provide answers for bereaved parents - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Maternity Services: Gloucestershire - Wed 09 Oct 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Bobby Dean (LD - Carshalton and Wallington) In recent years, there has been a stark increase in maternal mortality, rising from around eight deaths - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) It is not acceptable in this country in the 21st century that ethnic or socioeconomic background is a - Speech Link
3: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) We are setting an explicit target to close the black and Asian maternity mortality gap. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Preventable Baby Loss - Wed 04 Sep 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lizzi Collinge (Lab - Morecambe and Lunesdale) Funding for support groups is also extremely difficult, with some groups struggling to get support for - Speech Link
2: Andy MacNae (Lab - Rossendale and Darwen) According to the 2022 perinatal mortality report, black babies are more than twice as likely to be stillborn - Speech Link
3: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) If the disparity for ethnic minority women—whether they are black, Asian or from another ethnic minority—was - Speech Link
4: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) All hospitals already carry out internal perinatal mortality reviews, which create reports that aim to - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Myanmar: Health System - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Crisp (XB - Life peer) Just as an indicator, perinatal deaths have been going up and vaccination rates are down by about 50% - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) only worsened, in the meantime.I declare an interest as vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups - Speech Link
3: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) There has been a collapse in health care, maternal mortality has increased to a level that one could - Speech Link
4: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) The number of skilled birth attendants has fallen, infant mortality has risen, and acute malnutrition - Speech Link