Craig Whittaker – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Craig Whittaker on 2014-04-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doctors were referred to the police for investigation for crimes relating to the Abortion Act 1967 in each of the last 10 years; and how many such referrals resulted in (a) charges and (b) convictions.

Jane Ellison

No registered medical practitioners have been convicted of a breach of abortion law and no prosecutions have been brought in the past ten years.