Steve Reed – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve Reed on 2016-09-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many premature babies were born in (a) England and (b) each local authority in 2015.

Mr Philip Dunne

Information is not available in the format requested. The gestation length is not recorded on an individual birth record, but on the mother’s delivery episode. Therefore we cannot provide the number of births, as a single delivery may involve multiple births.