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, what assessment his Department has made of how widespread sex-selective abortion would have to be before it was detectable in nationally-compiled birth ratios.
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.