Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will undertake a review of the data collected by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in its National Maternity Perinatal Audit on (a) good and (b) poor care in twin pregnancies.

According to the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA), the majority of its measures are restricted to data available on singleton, term births. The NMPA have stated that it plans to analyse a set of key measures for preterm and multiple births and to publish this separately. We will then consider how these data might inform its policies for improving maternity safety.

The latest MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report noted that between 2014-2016 twin stillbirths reduced by 44% and neonatal deaths fell by 30%. These falls are statistically significant and the largest fall among any population since records began.