Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of mental health support to parents affected by baby loss in Slough.

The maternity team at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust offers counselling support for parents in Slough who have experienced stillbirth or neonatal death. The Forget-Me-Not maternal mental health service provides mental health support for women who have experienced pre-24-week pregnancy loss. Both services allow referrals for up to two years following a loss.

All integrated care board areas in England offer seven-day-a-week bereavement services across maternity settings and maternal mental health services that specialise in supporting women who have experienced baby loss. All NHS England trusts have also signed up to the National Bereavement Care Pathway, which acts as a set of standards to ensure families receive consistent, individualised and sensitive bereavement care.