Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what account he has taken of the research performed by Dubuc and Coleman in formulating a strategy for the assessment of the incidence of sex-selective abortion in England and Wales.

The assessment of the evidence of gender abortions will capture a number of approaches, including an update of the Department’s analysis of birth ratios to include births occurring in 2013, and will take into consideration relevant published research, including that by Dubuc and Coleman.