Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that abortions carried out after a diagnosis of Down's Syndrome are recorded.
It is a legal requirement set by the Abortion Act 1967 that all abortions performed in England must be notified to the Chief Medical Officer. Doctors use the HSA4 abortion notification form for this purpose and must record the reason, including where the termination was due to a diagnosis of Down's Syndrome.