Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many local maternity systems plans have been submitted to NHS England; and when he plans to make those plans publicly available.

As recommended in Better Births, local maternity systems have formed across England and are co-producing proposals with local women to make maternity services safer and more personal. Initial proposals have been shared with NHS England regional teams. These proposals are locally owned, and where they have not yet been published, the proposals will be published in due course, as part of continuing local engagement and co-production with women, staff and other stakeholders.