Prisoners: Childbirth

(asked on 15th October 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) babies born to women serving custodial sentences have lived and (b) neo-natal mortalities there have been among such women in each women's prison in England and Wales in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 21st October 2019

The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost. We are currently carrying out a fundamental review of our Mother and Baby Units policy, as part of which, we are looking at what information related to pregnancy and birth can be collected.

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