Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make it its policy to record and include miscarriages in official statistics for the purposes of (a) setting targets for reducing baby loss and (b) informing the forthcoming Women’s Health Strategy.

There are no official statistics reported for miscarriages. The accurate reporting of miscarriages in England is challenging due to the significant number of miscarriages not reported to a healthcare provider, particularly those that take place at an early gestation.

Pregnancy loss is a priority area within the recently published Women’s Health Strategy for England, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/womens-health-strategy-for-england