Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that every hospital that has a maternity unit has a bereavement suite.

All bereaved parents should be offered the same high standard of care and support in an appropriate environment.

I am pleased that, thanks in part to this Government’s investment of £35million, nine out of ten maternity units have dedicated bereavement rooms.

Next month I am hosting a roundtable with charities and colleagues to discuss these important issues in greater detail.