This year, Black Maternal Health Awareness Week fell on the 28th April – 2nd May. I led a Westminster Hall debate marking Black Maternal Health Awareness Week. I paid tribute to the campaigners whose work means we are having this debate and pushed the government to deliver on its manifesto promise to close the maternal mortality gap. We must take action to address the reality that Black women in the UK are still three times more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum.

On this week, I also tabled Early Day Motion 1146 and asked the government to hold an inquiry into racial disparities in maternity care, to fund dedicated research into medical complications affecting Black mothers, review medical training across the professions and acknowledge systemic racism in healthcare outcomes.