Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations officials in his Department have made to representatives of (a) the Government of El Salvador and (b) other countries on changes to the abortion law of those countries.

We deplore and condemn the Government of El Salvador's treatment of women who have miscarried. We raise our concerns about the abortion laws in El Salvador, and their harmful impact on women, with the Salvadoran Government on a regular basis. Our Ambassador in San Salvador last raised our concerns with the Salvadoran Foreign Minister on 29 November.

The circumstances in which we can consider supporting legal and policy reform are set out in our published policy position on this issue. Ministers and officials engage other countries on this basis.