Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord O’Shaughnessy on 21 March (HL5804 and HL5905), why a patient's marital status, where known, is requested on HSA4 abortion notification forms.
The recording of a patient’s marital status on the HSA4 abortion notification forms is a requirement set out in the Abortion (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2002.