Lord Shinkwin

To ask Her Majesty’s Government by which method the gestation of a foetus is determined before being recorded on the HSA4 abortion notification form.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many successful claims for wrongful birth, other than cases of failed sterilisation or vasectomy, have been made since 1990; what was the total amount of compensation awarded by the NHS Litigation Authority in each case...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much the NHS Litigation Authority has paid in total since 1990 to parents of babies with disabilities who claimed that they would have had an abortion had they known earlier that their child would have a disability.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many payments for wrongful birth, other than cases of failed sterilisation or vasectomy, were made by the NHS Litigation Authority to parents of children with Down's syndrome in each of the past five years; and what was...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many fatal foetal abnormalities were diagnosed after 24 weeks of a pregnancy in each of the last five years.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many fatal foetal abnormalities were diagnosed in each of the last five years.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact that payments for wrongful birth, other than cases of failed sterilisation or vasectomy, have on people living with disabilities, and public perception regarding the value of the...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton 21 November (HL3063) indicating that no equality impact assessment was conducted prior to the decision to introduce non-invasive prenatal testing on the NHS, what is ...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 22 November (HL3125), whether the public disclosure of a relevant interest is sufficient in all cases relating to appointments to the UK National Screening Committ...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which the introduction of non-invasive prenatal testing is consistent with disability equality.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of a statement on the Guardian website on 31 October that an article on the approval of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) had to be amended to correct a statement that the Nuffield Council on Bioethics had ...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the decision to approve non-invasive prenatal testing was revealed in an article in the Guardian on 29 October, including a comment from the Health Minister, before that decision was formally published on the government...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have reviewed the compatibility of section 1(1)(d) of the Abortion Act 1967 with Article 5 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the report by the Department of Health Matching Department of Health abortion notifications and data from the National Down’s Syndrome Cytogenetic Register, published in May 2014, and of the report by Euroc...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their response to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' submission to the UK National Screening Committee concerning the case for making a rigorous analysis of the lifetime costs of caring for child...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the NHS is being, or will be, charged for the use of non-invasive prenatal testing technology by technology providers; and if so, what is their estimate of the annual cost to the NHS of such charges.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect the assessment by the Nuffield Centre for Bioethics of the ethical implications of the introduction of the new non-invasive prenatal test to be completed.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 22 November (HL3127), and in the light of the failure by the Secretary of State for Health to respond to the request by Lord Shinkwin of 8 March 2016 to meet with ...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 22 November (HL3127), how the UK National Screening Committee, in making its recommendation on 15 January that non-invasive prenatal testing be approved, formally ...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government for which specific conditions terminations under section 1(1)(d) of the Abortion Act 1967, either alone or in conjunction with other paragraphs of subsection 1(1), were performed in each of the last five years for which fig...