Asked by: Robert Flello (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what account he has taken of the research performed by Dubuc and Coleman in formulating a strategy for the assessment of the incidence of sex-selective abortion in England and Wales.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The assessment of the evidence of gender abortions will capture a number of approaches, including an update of the Department’s analysis of birth ratios to include births occurring in 2013, and will take into consideration relevant published research, including that by Dubuc and Coleman.
Asked by: Robert Flello (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to meet Jeena International, Karma Nirvana and the Sharan Project and other women's groups to discuss their experience of dealing with UK women who have had sex-selective abortions.
Answered by Jane Ellison
All requests for meetings with Ministers are dealt with on a case by case basis giving due consideration to parliamentary business. The Government is clear that sex selective abortions in the United Kingdom are illegal.