This week we have been marking Baby Loss Awareness Week, our annual opportunity to reflect, remember and raise the profile of an issue which is very important to me following the death of my son in 2000.
When I was first elected in 2015, I joined colleagues from across the House who had experienced
Baby loss is an issue I hold extremely close to my own heart as I lost my own son. This is why when I was first elected as a Member of Parliament, I helped set up the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Baby Loss.
On Thursday 11 October, North Oxfordshire MP Victoria Prentis, welcomed colleagues, parliamentary staff and members of local and national baby loss charities, to the annual service of remembrance in the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft.
On 9 October 2018, Victoria Prentis, Member of Parliament for North Oxfordshire spoke in the Baby Loss Awareness Week debate.
The following transcript is taken from Hansard.
Thank you for letting me speak early in the debate, Madam Deputy Speaker.
On 2 February 2018, Victoria Prentis MP spoke in a debate on the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration) Bill, a Private Member’s Bill brought forward by Tim Loughton MP.
The following record is taken from the Official Report from Friday 2 February 2018.
Victor
The following account is taken from Hansard on Wednesday 31 January 2018.
Given that this is the first opportunity I have had to speak, I pray your indulgence, Mr Gray, as, like other Members, I thank people for the enormous work that has gone into the Bill.
Victoria Prentis MP was in the Commons Chamber on Wednesday 29 November to hear the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, announce a new safety strategy for NHS maternity services.
Following the launch of Petals (Pregnancy Expectations Trauma and Loss Society) in Banbury, Victoria Prentis took part in the Parental Bereavement (leave and pay) debate on Friday 20 October.
