Before Christmas recess, I asked the health Secretary to reconsider the Government’s decision to close Wales’s only perinatal in-patient unit in 2013. He declined and told me that enhanced community provision was adequately addressing the needs of mothers with perinatal mental health needs. I have obtained information showing that two LHBs have no data to illustrate what potential demand there is for an in-patient unit. Two LHBs did not have a perinatal community service until last summer, almost three years after the closure of the specialist unit. In at least one LHB, mothers are being offered referrals to in-patient units in England, but mothers are declining such referrals because they don’t want to be separated from their families. The cost of running an in-patient service in Wales was a mere £500,000 a year. Perinatal mental health issues can cost mothers their lives and deny children a parent. Can we have a statement from the health Secretary as soon as possible on what he intends to do in the future to provide mothers in Wales with the services they deserve?