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Health and Social Care Bill

I recommend that the hon. Gentleman reads the Hansard of the Committee, where we discussed that at great length. The work also established that there was no information-sharing system that would permit the disclosure of health in pregnancy grant data for the purpose of further developing social security policy for supporting expectant mothers. In order to facilitate policy development, Government amendments Nos. 48 and 49 add references to the health in pregnancy grant to existing information systems which permit information to flow for a broad range of Department for Work and Pensions activities, including social security policy development. That data would include statistical information such as the number of claims, regional distribution and the stages when claims are made. Lords amendment agreed to. Lords amendments Nos. 49 and 50 agreed to.