Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of NHS trusts in England that provided mandatory bereavement care training for maternity staff in each of the last five years.

The Department has not made any estimate of the number of National Health Service trusts that provide mandatory bereavement care training for maternity staff in each of the last five years. It has also not taken steps to mandate bereavement care training for maternity staff in NHS trusts. Decisions about the provision of bereavement services are taken locally and it is for local NHS trusts to ensure that they provide appropriate training for maternity staff.