Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of (a) women who present with heart related problems in the final month of pregnancy and (b) still births that occur in pregnancies where the mother has presented with heart related problems in the final month of pregnancy.

As listed in the following table, NHS Digital has provided the following information regarding heart-related problems and pregnancy for the years 2015-16 to 2018-19:

- patients whose record shows a diagnosis of hypertension in their final month of pregnancy (2^nd row, excluding stillbirths);

- patients whose record shows a diagnosis of cardiac disease in their final month of pregnancy (3^rd row, excluding stillbirths); and

- patients whose record shows a diagnosis of cardiac disease or hypertension in their final month of pregnancy and who subsequently had a stillbirth (4^th row).