MPs have urged the government to open an enquiry after officials found signs that birth rates for girls and boys vary noticeably according to where their mothers were born.
Earl Howe, a health minister, said that these differences in rates of male and female births among mothers of certain nationalities may 'fall outside the range considered possible without intervention'.
It formed the first official statistical evidence potentially backing up concerns that sex-selection abortions are being carried out in Britain.
