Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much her Department has spent on research into reducing inequalities in (a) pregnancy loss and (b) baby deaths in each year since 2015.

The Department, through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), funds a range of research in maternal and neonatal health focussing on the safety of maternity and neonatal services, and the national maternity ambition to halve maternal deaths, stillbirths and neonatal deaths and brain injury by 2025. Since 2015, the NIHR has invested in seven research awards with a specific focus on reducing inequalities in pregnancy loss and baby deaths. Across their full duration, these awards total a funding amount of £5.8 million.