| Heading: |
Children: Death |
| Question ID: |
1734524 |
| UIN: |
9375 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-10-15 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5297 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Rebecca Paul
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| Asking Member handle: |
Rebecca_SPaul
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@Rebecca_SPaul
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason his Department's Notification of Child Death Form asks about the gender with which the child identified at the time of their death in cases where the child was over 10; and whether |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2024-12-02 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4444 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Karin Smyth
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| Answering Member handle: |
karinsmyth
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@karinsmyth
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Notification of Child Death Form, part of the National Child Mortality Database, continues to capture the sex of the child for anyone under the age of 18 years old, in line with sex being a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.Although... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |