Dr. Patricia Lohr:

Every woman who has an abortion at the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, BPAS, has an ultrasound to ensure the pregnancy is intrauterine and to look for viability. When I say, "viability", I mean in early pregnancy because we provide miscarriage management and if we identify a miscarriage or a miscarriage in process, we would have a different conversation with the woman than if we were counselling her about an abortion. We also scan to determine the gestational age.

BPAS does not scan for anomalies. The women we treat who have been diagnosed with a foetal anomaly will normally have been referred in to us from a foetal medicine centre and it is not in our ability to perform those sorts of ultrasounds. I hope that answers the Deputy's question.