Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many premature babies were born at between 22 and 24 weeks of gestation in the last five years.

The following table shows the number of all live births and those with gestational age of 22 weeks, 23 weeks and 24 weeks in England and Wales between 2017 and 2021, the most recent five-year period for which data is available:

Source: Office for National Statistics Birth Characteristics

Note: Still births are not included as they are only measured from gestational age of 24 weeks onwards.