HC Deb 21 March 1988 vol 130 c26W
12. Mr. Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the provision of neonatal facilities in hospitals in Wales.

Mr. Grist

I am pleased that improvements in services for newly born babies and their mothers have been accompanied by a dramatic reduction in the perinatal mortality rate in Wales, which has fallen from 15.6 per 1,000 births in 1979 to 10.3 in 1986.

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