Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the impact of suspending the telemedicine service on vulnerable women, including those with abusive partners.

Evidence on the wellbeing and safety of women requiring access to abortion service was considered among the responses received to the Government’s consultation on the temporary approval which allowed home use of both pills for early medical abortion during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will work with stakeholders in the sector and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner to monitor the impact as face to face services return from August 2022.