Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many premature babies required neonatal care lasting two weeks or longer in (a) 2019, (b) 2018, (c) 2017, (d) 2016 and (e) 2015.

We have provided the count of birth episodes with a gestational duration of less than 37 weeks (premature), and a postnatal stay of equal to or greater than 14 days, from 2014-15 to 2018-19.

It should be noted that this data should not be described as a count of people as the same person may have been admitted on one or more occasion.