Proceeding contribution from Jeremy Hunt (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 30 June 2026. It occurred during Ministerial statement on National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation.
National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation
I strongly agree with the comments of the former Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Ilford North (Wes Streeting), about the need for getting the culture right with accountability. When I was Secretary of State, we passed the duty of candour regulations. They were supposed to make it—well, they do make it—a criminal offence for trusts not to tell the truth to families when a tragedy has happened. Yet to this day, trust lawyers advise doctors, nurses and midwives not to be open about what has happened when there is the prospect of legal action further down the line. Does the Secretary of State—I know he is very committed to this—agree that we will clear up this anomaly in the Hillsborough law so that it is just not possible for trusts not to tell the truth and so that trust lawyers always advise their own doctors, nurses and midwives that they must tell families exactly what happened?
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- 2026-27
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- Staff Accountability Ethnic groups Public appointments Racial discrimination Midwives Standards Maternity services Perinatal mortality Training Reviews National Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce
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