Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing buffer zones outside abortion clinics to protect women seeking an abortion from protesters.

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to 5385 on 13 July 2015. We have received correspondence on this matter from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service.

The Home Office has not issued guidance to the police on protecting women outside abortion clinics from harassment and intimidation.