15. To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the provision of maternity services accessed by those in Lewes. (138350)

Women in the Lewes constituency have, and will continue to have, personalised maternity care and a choice of high quality, safe and clinically viable settings when deciding where and how to have their baby.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the safety of maternity services in the UK compared with (a) other European and (b) non-European developed countries. (136503)

It is not possible to make a direct comparison of the safety of maternity services in this country compared to other European and non-European countries because in the United Kingdom we use far more inclusive and detailed data collection systems which are not comparable. Many other countries are now starting to adopt the UK methodology so we will be able to make more meaningful comparisons in the future.