To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department took account of the effects of the Hyde Amendment restricting US federal funding of abortion in preparing the partial regulatory impact assessment on the Termination of Pregnancy Bill of Session 2006-07; and if he will make a statement. (241142)

Only legislation pertaining to the laws governing abortion in Great Britain was considered as part of the partial regulatory impact assessment on the Termination of Pregnancy Bill of Session 2006-07.