Fiona Bruce – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Fiona Bruce on 2015-10-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of how widespread sex-selective abortion would have to be before it was detectable in nationally-compiled birth ratios.

Jane Ellison

The Department is committed to publishing an analysis of birth ratios annually; the latest report was published in August 2015.

Assessments were carried out to inform this analysis and Annex C of the latest publication ‘Assessment of termination of pregnancy on grounds of the sex of the foetus’ summarises the findings with further technical detail in Annex B of the publication; a copy is attached.