Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 85936

Abortion: Telemedicine

Tabled: 28 October 2025

Answered: 28 November 2025

Question

Carla Lockhart

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the introduction of telemedicine for first-trimester abortions on the number of criminal prosecutions in the last five years.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The Government has not made an assessment on the connection between the number of prosecutions for unlawful abortions and the availability of telemedicine for early medical abortion. As with other matters of conscience, abortion is an issue on which the G...

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