Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many brain injuries around birth there were in (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013, (d) 2014 and (e) 2015.

The following International Classification of Diseases codes classify a birth related brain injury:

- P10 Intracranial laceration and haemorrhage due to birth injury

- P11.0 Cerebral oedema due to birth injury

- P11.1 Other specified brain damage due to birth injury

- P11.2 Unspecified brain damage due to birth injury.

The available information is in the table below.

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics

Note:

Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage, improvements in coverage of independent sector activity and changes in National Health Service practice.