Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what records his Department holds of the number of children born with cerebral palsy each year in (a) each Community Care Group area, (b) each local authority area, (c) each region and (d) nationally.
The Department has made no formal assessment of the recommendations in Action Cerebral Palsy's audit of cerebral palsy provision, ‘Variations in Care’.
Information of the number of children born with cerebral palsy in each year is not held centrally.