Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of women living in York who have been transferred to hospitals outside the City of York local authority boundary to give birth in each month in 2021; and if he will provide the reasons for those transfers.

We are unable to provide monthly data on the number of women living in York who have been transferred to hospitals outside the City of York local authority boundary to give birth as the numbers are small and could lead to the identification of individuals. However, in 2021 of 1,334 deliveries in York, 34 were transferred to hospitals outside the area.

Information on the reasons for individual transfers is not routinely collected.