Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 100515

Abortion: Health Services

Tabled: 16 December 2025

Answered: 6 January 2026

Question

Carla Lockhart

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department issues to abortion providers on informing women of alternative support services and pathways before an abortion is undertaken.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The Department’s required standard operating procedures for the approval of independent sector places for termination of pregnancy, or abortion, in England sets out that women requesting termination of pregnancy must be given impartial, accurate, and evid...

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