Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the report entitled Characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women admitted to hospital with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK: national population based cohort study published in the British Medical Journal on 8 June 2020; and if he will make a statement.

The report, based on cases submitted to the National Institute for Health Research-funded United Kingdom Obstetric Surveillance System, found that more than half of pregnant women admitted to hospital with SARS-CoV-2 infection were from black or other ethnic minority groups, most women did not have severe illness and were admitted in the third trimester, and transmission of infection to infants of infected mothers may occur but is uncommon.