Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spends on the annual You and Your Baby national survey of health care; when he plans to publish the findings of the current survey; for how long that study will be funded; and how the findings of that survey will inform the work of his Department.

The Department of Health-funded Policy Research Unit in Maternal Health and Care at the University of Oxford is conducting the ‘You and Your Baby’ survey. This is the first time that the survey has been run and there are currently no plans for it to be repeated annually. The total cost is approximately £490,000.

The survey will run from later this year and into early 2018. The Policy Research Unit plans to report the findings in mid to late 2018. The information gained through the survey will inform policy development by building the evidence base on women’s experiences of care for her and her baby during pregnancy and the first six months after her baby’s birth.