Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what information her Department holds on the estimated number of abortions which will be carried out as a result of the £1.1 billion funding her Department committed to family planning at the 2017 International Family Planning Summit.

By helping the world’s poorest women access modern contraception, we will prevent an estimated 6 million unintended pregnancies and 3 million abortions on average each year.

Family planning reduces, but on its own does not eliminate, the backstreet abortions that kill women. So, where this is not against local law, the UK will consider supporting access to safe abortion in the world’s poorest countries. UK aid cannot be used to fund illegal services.