Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to help ensure that NHS documentation and correspondence relating to maternity services refers to women and mothers.

As set out in the Women’s Health Strategy, published August 2022, the Government is committed to ensuring that women are properly represented in communications and guidance, including through the appropriate use of sex-specific language to communicate matters that relate to women’s and men’s individual health issues.