Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Theo Clarke

Wednesday 21st July 2021 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Let us see if we can pick up the pace.

[Theo Clarke (Stafford) (Con) [V]]

Last Friday, I joined local health officials and members of the public at a consultation meeting on maternity services in Staffordshire. Maternity was temporarily suspended at Stafford’s County Hospital at the height of the pandemic so that wards could be used to treat covid-19 patients. Does my right hon. Friend agree that anyone who wants to give birth at Stafford’s County Hospital should be able to do so?