Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Revised Standard Operating Procedures for the Approval of Independent Places for the Termination of Pregnancy, what assessment he has made of the possibility that inaccurate diagnoses will follow his Department's decision to allow women to refrain from informing their GP of a prior abortion.

Women seeking an abortion have the right to confidentiality and their decision must be respected if they do not want their general practitioner to be informed.