Childbirth
(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the preterm birth rate was in (a) 2010 and (b) 2020.
This question was answered on 8th September 2023
The definition used to monitor progress towards the pre-term birth element of the National Maternity Safety Ambition includes data on pre-term live births and stillbirths. Based on this definition, the preterm birth rate, live births and stillbirths, was 7.3 per 100 births in 2010 and was 7.5 per 100 births in 2020.