Maternity Improvement Strategy

Part of Health and Social Care – in the House of Commons at on 6 May 2025.

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Photo of Jack Rankin Jack Rankin Conservative, Windsor

Last year’s birth trauma inquiry report exposed that maternity services in this country are woefully underfunded, and now the Health Secretary intends to cut the budget for maternity improvement from £95 million to just £2 million, equating to less than £4 per child born in this country each year. What kind of change is that? What message will that send to mothers across the country? Does the Secretary of State plan to implement any of the recommendations from the birth trauma inquiry report, many of which were committed to by the previous Government?

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