Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to rapidly implement improvements to miscarriage (a) care and (b) statistics as part of the Women’s Health Strategy.

Pregnancy, pregnancy loss and post-natal support will be addressed in the forthcoming Women’s Health Strategy for England, which will be published later this year.

There are currently no official statistics reported for miscarriages. As a significant number of miscarriages are not reported to a healthcare provider, particularly those that take place at an early gestation, the collection of accurate data in England is challenging. However, we have committed to consider the Lancet Series’ recommendation to record all miscarriages.