Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2025 to Question 43516: Maternity Services and with reference to the Final report of the Ockenden Review, published on 30 March 2022, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal care in implementing the findings of the Ockenden review.

NHS England’s Three-Year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services, from 2023 to 2026, pulled together the majority of existing commitments, including the Ockenden recommendations, into a single package. The technical guidance outlines how progress towards the objectives of the plan is being tracked at a national level.

The vast majority of recommendations in the second Ockenden report were aimed at trusts. Following this, NHS England wrote to all National Health Service trusts asking them to consider and act upon the report’s findings, and asked trust boards to have oversight of the progress. Integrated care boards are responsible for overseeing local progress.