Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Earl Howe on 16 December (HL Deb, col 103), that "noble Lords around the House will form their own conclusions on the information provided by the noble Lord, Lord Alton" concerning the relative numbers of males and females and the prevalence of gender selection abortions in China, what conclusion they draw.

As stated in my response to the noble Lord on 16 December (HL Deb, Col 103), I shall undertake the commitment to contact the Department for International Development.