HC Deb 15 January 1990 vol 165 c86W
Mr. Pike

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action his Department proposes to take to reduce the perinatal death rate in those health authority areas where that death rate is higher than the national average.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

I refer the hon. Member to the Government reply to the First Report from the Social Services Committee, Session 1988–89 on Perinatal, Neonatal and Infant Mortality (CM 741), a copy of which is available in the Library.