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Baby Loss Awareness Week

Debate on Tuesday, 8 October 2019, in the House of Commons, led by Nadine Dorries and Caroline Dinenage. The answering members were Julie Cooper and Paula Sherriff.
Motion, That this House has considered baby loss awareness week. Agreed to on question.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

664 cc1707-1742 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
Baby Loss Awareness Week 2019
Monday, 7 October 2019
Research briefings

Proceeding contributions

Caroline Dinenage | 664 c1708 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That this House has considered baby loss awareness week.

This is the f...

Jim Cunningham | 664 c1708 (Link to this contribution)

I identify with everything the Minister has said so far. One point about these debates for member...


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Caroline Dinenage | 664 cc1708-9 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Gentleman so much for that intervention. He is absolutely right. In this place, ...

Jamie Stone | 664 c1709 (Link to this contribution)

I wholeheartedly support the thrust of this debate and what the Minister is saying. I am not goin...

Caroline Dinenage | 664 c1709 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that. The situation is particularly difficult in ...

Andrew Percy | 664 c1709 (Link to this contribution)

This is such an important topic. While the Minister is on the subject of outreach clinics, may I ...

Caroline Dinenage | 664 c1709 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point. He is absolutely right that we need to gi...

Tim Loughton | 664 c1709 (Link to this contribution)

On the question of raising awareness, a job that was so ably started by my hon. Friends, the Mini...

Caroline Dinenage | 664 cc1710-1 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that matter, because he brought forward a really impo...

Andrew Jones | 664 c1711 (Link to this contribution)

I associate myself with the Minister’s positive words about my right hon. Friend the Member for S...

Caroline Dinenage | 664 c1711 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right to raise that matter. When a tragedy could have been avoided by something...

Jamie Stone | 664 c1711 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister talks about safety advice and safety good practice, so may I ask her and the UK Gove...

Caroline Dinenage | 664 cc1711-2 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman has put his thoughts clearly on the record, and if there is anything we can ev...

Neil Parish | 664 c1712 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for Baby Loss Awareness Week and for her statement. Let me reiterate that ma...

Caroline Dinenage | 664 c1712 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right, and so much of what the Government have been working on in recent years ...

Gareth Thomas | 664 c1712 (Link to this contribution)

I apologise to the Minister and to the House for missing the early part of her remarks. On the st...

Caroline Dinenage | 664 c1713 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is right. We are still going forwards, although nowhere near as quickly as we ...

Sarah Champion | 664 c1713 (Link to this contribution)

I was contacted by one of my constituents, whose baby died in July at 26 days. She still, now, ha...

Caroline Dinenage | 664 cc1713-4 (Link to this contribution)

Yes. That guidance is there. My heart goes out to the hon. Lady’s constituent. If she wants to ge...

Julie Cooper | 664 cc1714-5 (Link to this contribution)

It is a privilege to have the opportunity to speak in this debate, which marks the 18th UK Baby L...

Jeremy Hunt | 664 cc1715-7 (Link to this contribution)

It is a great privilege to speak from the Back Benches for the first time in over a decade follow...

Patricia Gibson | 664 c1717 (Link to this contribution)

I begin by thanking the hon. Member for Eddisbury (Antoinette Sandbach) for bringing forward this...

Sarah Champion | 664 c1718 (Link to this contribution)

Before this job, I ran a children’s hospice. We were able to provide wraparound care to the whole...

Patricia Gibson | 664 c1718 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. That is the kind of support we need to put in place, ...

Gareth Thomas | 664 c1718 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Lady for giving way. She is making a powerful speech, and I strongly support her...

Patricia Gibson | 664 cc1718-1720 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. The point I am trying to make is that because we...

Alison Thewliss | 664 c1720 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, and I commend her bravery in speaking up on this ag...

Patricia Gibson | 664 c1720 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend, and I think she has made an excellent point. The shadow of a stillbirth w...

Carolyn Harris | 664 c1720 (Link to this contribution)

Will the hon. Lady join me in this poignant debate in saying how dreadfully sorry we all are that...

Patricia Gibson | 664 cc1720-1 (Link to this contribution)

Absolutely. I absolutely share the hon. Lady’s sentiments. I think the important thing for all th...

Antoinette Sandbach | 664 c1721 (Link to this contribution)

It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Patricia Gibson),...

Sarah Champion | 664 c1722 (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Lady share my concern that that is not the case across all health trusts and that w...

Antoinette Sandbach | 664 cc1722-3 (Link to this contribution)

I absolutely do, and I shall come on to that. Having been through the system in Wales, where abso...

Justin Madders | 664 cc1723-6 (Link to this contribution)

It is a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Eddisbury (Antoinette Sandbach), who speaks from ...

Andrew Percy | 664 cc1726-8 (Link to this contribution)

I obviously associate myself with many of the comments that have been made today, particularly th...

Anna Soubry | 664 cc1728-9 (Link to this contribution)

It is a real pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Brigg and Goole (Andrew Percy). My contributi...

Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 664 c1729 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Lady is absolutely correct. When this House comes together and works properly, we ...

Victoria Prentis | 664 cc1729-1730 (Link to this contribution)

As ever, I am grateful to be called to speak, Madam Deputy Speaker, although I was not anticipati...

Jeremy Hunt | 664 c1730 (Link to this contribution)

I can retire now. [ Laughter . ]

Victoria Prentis | 664 cc1730-1 (Link to this contribution)

I hope that my right hon. Friend will count that among his most important achievements. I expect ...

Sarah Champion | 664 c1731 (Link to this contribution)

I have a couple of points for the Minister. First, there is a lack of trained paediatric nurses, ...

Jim Shannon | 664 cc1731-2 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for Care, the hon. Member for Gosport (Caroline Dinenage), in her absence, f...

Paul Girvan | 664 c1732 (Link to this contribution)

On the number of people who have had difficulties, the problem we have perhaps relates to the lev...

Jim Shannon | 664 cc1732-3 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention and I can relate it to my constituency and the peopl...

Anna Soubry | 664 c1734 (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Gentleman accept that it is very important and powerful when people are able to sta...

Jim Shannon | 664 c1734 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the right hon. Lady for that intervention.

Let me read those words again:

“I ...

Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 664 c1734 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his excellent speech. The whole Chamber agrees with every word tha...

Paula Sherriff | 664 cc1734-7 (Link to this contribution)

Today’s debate has been incredibly moving and I am humbled to respond on behalf of the Opposition...

Nadine Dorries | 664 cc1737-8 (Link to this contribution)

What an important debate this has been, and that is of course thanks to the efforts of my hon. Fr...

Stephen Gethins | 664 c1738 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister makes a very good point. I pay enormous tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Nor...

Nadine Dorries | 664 c1738 (Link to this contribution)

I have already sent a message to my team asking why the test is not being done in Scotland and wh...

Paul Sweeney | 664 c1738 (Link to this contribution)

I share the sentiments of the hon. Member for North East Fife (Stephen Gethins): collaboration is...

Nadine Dorries | 664 cc1738-9 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution, but I only have a few minutes left, so I have to...

Antoinette Sandbach | 664 c1739 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. The really good evidence that was disclosed in the ...

Nadine Dorries | 664 cc1739-1741 (Link to this contribution)

What I will say to my hon. Friend in response is that, in the long-term plan, the NHS commits to<...

Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 664 c1741 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you. What an excellent, calm and constructive debate.

Question put and agreed to .

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