Abortion: Gender Selection

(asked on 13th October 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

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.


Answered by
 Portrait
Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 21st October 2015

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.

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