Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made on the viability on police enforced buffer zones around abortion clinics.

At the Report Stage for the Bill in the House of Commons on the 18th October, MPs voted to accept an amendment that creates national buffer zones outside abortion clinics.

The Government respects the will of Parliament and will now work with Parliamentarians, the police, abortion service providers and religious and civil liberty groups to implement the amendment, should it also be backed by the House of Lords.