Fiona Bruce – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Fiona Bruce on 2015-10-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department next plans to publish an assessment of the incidence of sex-selective abortion in the UK.
Jane Ellison
The Department is committed to publishing an analysis of birth ratios annually; the latest report was published in August 2015.
Assessments were carried out to inform this analysis and Annex C of the latest publication ‘Assessment of termination of pregnancy on grounds of the sex of the foetus’ summarises the findings with further technical detail in Annex B of the publication; a copy is attached.