Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the his Department's response of 1 October 2020 to Freedom of Information request FOI-1250644, whether the Government has plans to prosecute abortion providers for enabling women to take abortion pills beyond the 10-week gestation period limit.

The Abortion Act 1967 permits termination of a pregnancy by a registered medical practitioner subject to certain conditions. Decisions to bring a prosecution in relation to the law on abortion are for the police and the Crown Prosecution Service, not the Government.