Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's National Maternity Safety Ambition, revised in November 2017, whether it remains his Department's policy to halve the rates of (a) stillbirths, (b) neonatal deaths and (c) maternal deaths by 2025.

We remain committed to the National Maternity Safety Ambition, which includes reducing the rate of pre-term births from 8% to 6%. Since 2010, the rate of stillbirths has reduced by 25%; the rate of neonatal mortality for babies born over 24 weeks gestational age of viability has reduced by 36%; and maternal mortality has reduced by 17%.