(asked on 12th September 2023)
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Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the rate of stillbirths in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022.
This question was answered on 20th September 2023
Based on Office for National Statistics (ONS) data releases, the stillbirth rate was 4.1 per 1,000 total births in 2021 and 3.9 per 1,000 total births in 2022 for England and Wales.
Based on ONS data releases, the preterm birth rate for 2021 was 7.7 per 100 total births. The Department does not hold an estimate of the preterm birth rate for 2022.