Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many newborns died at the Countess of Chester hospital's maternity unit in (a) 2013, (b) 2014, (c) 2015, (d) 2016, (e) 2017 and (f) 2018, broken down by month.

This information is not held in the format requested.

The number of neonatal deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital is available publicly at the following link:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/neonatal_deaths_and_fois#incoming-1255362

Additionally, data published by the Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK (MBRRACE-UK) programme can be filtered by Trust, including the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Data published by MBRRACE-UK which shows the neonatal mortality rate for the Countess of Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for the years 2013 to 2018 can be found at the following link:

https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/mbrrace-uk/reports/perinatal-mortality-surveillance