Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2014 to Question 210749, if his Department will seek confirmation of the compliance of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) with his Department's guidance and required standard operating procedures by reviewing BPAS publications and information; and whether his Department considers it necessary for BPAS to make amendments to page 8 of its publication British Abortion Law, what it says, and why, in order to achieve such compliance.
The Government has been consistently clear that abortion on the grounds of gender alone is illegal and the Department of Health repeated this in new guidance issued in May 2014.
All independent sector providers have agreed to comply with and operate on the basis of the Department’s new guidance and must do so as part of their licensing conditions.