Birth Certificates

(asked on 13th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of recording the time of birth on birth certificates; and if she will make a statement.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 18th April 2018

Time of birth is currently recorded in cases of multiple live births in England and Wales. There are no current plans to review the detail collected and recorded in other live births.

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