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.
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 Friday 15 March 2019, Victoria Prentis MP spoke in support of extending civil partnerships to opposite-sex couples during a Parliamentary debate. Please see below for a full transcript of Victoria’s speech, taken from Hansard:
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 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.
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.
