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Baby Loss Awareness Week

Proceeding contribution from Tim Loughton (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 8 October 2019. It occurred during Debate on Baby Loss Awareness Week.

On the question of raising awareness, a job that was so ably started by my hon. Friends, the Minister will be aware of my Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019, which became law in May, two parts of which relate to stillbirth. One gives the Secretary of State the power to have coroners investigate stillbirths and the other sets up a review by the Secretary

of State to look into the registration of pre-24-week stillbirths. That review body has not met for over a year, so can the Minister update us on when the legislation will be laid so that, for the first time, coroners will have the power and ability to investigate stillbirths where they see fit to do so?

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Reference

664 c1709 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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