Mentions:
1: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) have to travel an hour is appalling.The ICB suggested last year that there was an average of just six births - Speech Link
2: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) Friend explain that in the past there had been more than 300 births a year in the maternity unit, and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) burnt out by bullying and the terror of working on understaffed wards”.Another said:“I would return home - Speech Link
2: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) of staffing ever in midwifery, 5% up on last year and 21% up on 2010, against a background of static births - Speech Link
3: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) which need bringing out into the air, such as overmedicalisation, the failure to implement the better births - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Cumberlege (Con - Life peer) We published our report in 2016 and called it Better Births. - Speech Link
2: Lord Patel (XB - Life peer) They are women who might be abused in the house; women who are further abused when they take home a baby - Speech Link
3: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) I should add: please do not try this at home. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Are people able to work from home? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (XB - Life peer) Both HMRC and the Home Office operate under powers tightly defined in legislation. - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) If we have to base best practice on the Home Office, we are in deep trouble.That aside, we talked about - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) We are pleased that, in Clauses 133 to 137, the Government have set about modernising the Births and - Speech Link
4: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The provisions in the Bill will allow for more flexibility in how births and deaths are registered—for - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) Back in 1993, there were 5.7 stillbirths per 1,000 births. - Speech Link
2: Cherilyn Mackrory (Con - Truro and Falmouth) pregnant women who were glowing, and families who were just looking forward to taking their babies home - Speech Link
3: Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab - Erith and Thamesmead) That is 5.6 stillbirths per 1,000 births in the most deprived areas compared with 2.7 per 1,000 births - Speech Link
4: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) I was horrified to read stories of women miscarrying at home and storing their baby’s remains in their - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Theo Clarke (Con - Stafford) like me, be unlucky and have a third or fourth-degree tear, which occurs in about three in 100 vaginal births - Speech Link
2: Rosie Duffield (Lab - Canterbury) Those women want the law to be changed so that stillborn births have to have an inquest.Helen says:“One - Speech Link
3: Douglas Ross (Con - Moray) as ‘women labour the best at home’. - Speech Link
4: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) I was sent home after just a few days’ stay in hospital.It was after I got home that things started to - Speech Link
5: Cherilyn Mackrory (Con - Truro and Falmouth) I have had two pregnancies and two births: one straightforward live birth, and the second a stillbirth - Speech Link
Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many births were delivered at the birthing suites at Edgware Birth Centre in each of the last five years.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows the numbers of births delivered at birthing suites at Edgware Birth Centre, in each of the last five years:
Year | Births delivered |
2018/19 | 68 |
2019/20 | 73 |
2020/21 | 18 |
2021/22 | 45 |
2022/23 | 34 |
Edgware Birth Centre is a standalone birth centre which is staffed by midwifery teams employed by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust who work across a number of locations. Because of this it is difficult to determine the cost for the centre separately. The centre is the base for three teams that work across the maternity services provided by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. The staff are deployed across a number of birth settings, including home births, Edgware Birth Centre, and Barnet Hospital. Staff working at the centre also deliver antenatal and postnatal clinics.
Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff are employed at the birthing suites at Edgware Birth Centre.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows the numbers of births delivered at birthing suites at Edgware Birth Centre, in each of the last five years:
Year | Births delivered |
2018/19 | 68 |
2019/20 | 73 |
2020/21 | 18 |
2021/22 | 45 |
2022/23 | 34 |
Edgware Birth Centre is a standalone birth centre which is staffed by midwifery teams employed by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust who work across a number of locations. Because of this it is difficult to determine the cost for the centre separately. The centre is the base for three teams that work across the maternity services provided by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. The staff are deployed across a number of birth settings, including home births, Edgware Birth Centre, and Barnet Hospital. Staff working at the centre also deliver antenatal and postnatal clinics.
Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the annual cost to the public purse is of the birthing suites at Edgware Birth Centre.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows the numbers of births delivered at birthing suites at Edgware Birth Centre, in each of the last five years:
Year | Births delivered |
2018/19 | 68 |
2019/20 | 73 |
2020/21 | 18 |
2021/22 | 45 |
2022/23 | 34 |
Edgware Birth Centre is a standalone birth centre which is staffed by midwifery teams employed by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust who work across a number of locations. Because of this it is difficult to determine the cost for the centre separately. The centre is the base for three teams that work across the maternity services provided by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. The staff are deployed across a number of birth settings, including home births, Edgware Birth Centre, and Barnet Hospital. Staff working at the centre also deliver antenatal and postnatal clinics.
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of live births that occurred to women who arrived in the UK while pregnant and seeking asylum in the last five years.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This information is not recorded in a reportable format.