International Development written question – answered at on 14 July 2014.
Jim Dobbin
Labour, Heywood and Middleton
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to the answer of 7 July 2014, Official Report, column 1W, on abortion, if she will withdraw her Department's policy position paper entitled Safe and Unsafe Abortion pending a free vote in the House on the use of UK aid to (a) campaign for more liberal abortion laws in other countries and (b) provide abortion services in other countries.
Lynne Featherstone
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development
The policy paper sets out how UK aid can be used to save the lives of women at risk from unsafe abortion, in accordance with the responsibilities that Parliament has given the Secretary of State.
Yes1 person thinks so
No1 person thinks not
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