Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many stillbirths have taken place in hospitals in England in each of the last 10 years.

This information is not held in the format requested as the there is no available data on whether stillbirths occur in or out of hospitals.

However, the following table shows data from the Office of National Statistics’ child mortality dataset on the number of stillbirths in England in each year from 2011 to 2019. Data for 2020 is not yet available.

Source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/childmortalitystatisticschildhoodinfantandperinatalchildhoodinfantandperinatalmortalityinenglandandwales

Note:

Data shows babies born at 24 weeks gestational age or greater which did not breathe or show signs of life.