Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many complications were reported by women who underwent a medical abortion after ingesting (a) mifepristone as the first step of a medical abortion and (b) misoprostol as the second step of a medical abortion in (i) 2017, (ii) 2018 and (iii) 2019.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The number of medical abortions for 2017 and 2018 with complications recorded on the abortion notification form where antiprogesterone and prostaglandin were recorded as prescribed is in the attached table. Mifepristone is a type of antiprogesterone and misoprostal is a type of prostaglandin.
The Code of Practice outlined in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 prohibits the pre-release of official statistics before the due date of publication. Data on complications in 2019 is still being collected and requires full quality assurance prior to release. Data for 2019 is due to be published on 11 June.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women who had an abortion in 2019 had one or more previous abortions.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Data on how many women who had an abortion in 2019 had one or more previous abortions is still being collected and requires full quality assurance prior to release. Data for 2019 will be published on 11 June at 9:30am. The Code of Practice outlined in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 prohibits the pre-release of official statistics before the due date of publication.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many non-residents received abortions in England and Wales in (a) 2017, (b) 2018, and (c) 2019.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Data on the number of legal abortions performed on non-residents of England and Wales in 2017 and 2018 is available in the attached table.
Abortion statistics for 2017 and 2018 are available at the following links:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales-2018
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales-2017
The vast majority of non-resident abortions are paid for privately.
The Code of Practice outlined in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 prohibits the pre-release of official statistics before the due date of publication. Data on the number of legal abortions performed on non-residents of England and Wales in 2019 is still being collected and requires full quality assurance prior to release. Data for 2019 will be published on 11 June at 9:30am.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many abortions were performed after 24 weeks in (a) 2017, (b) 2018, and (c) 2019.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Abortion statistics for 2017 and 2018 are available at the following links:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales-2018
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales-2017
The number of legal abortions performed after 24 weeks in 2017 and 2018 is available in the attached table.
The Code of Practice outlined in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 prohibits the pre-release of official statistics before the due date of publication. Data on the number of legal abortions performed after 24 weeks in 2019 is still being collected and requires full quality assurance prior to release. Data for 2019 will be published on 11 June at 9:30am.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many live births there were before the evacuation stage of an abortion in each of the last five years.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This data is not held by the Department.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the rate of abortion per 1,000 pregnancies among women aged 30 to 34 in (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The rate of abortion per 1,000 pregnancies amongst women aged 30-34 is not held by the Department.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the abortion rate was per 1,000 women aged 25 to 29 years old in (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The abortion rate per 1,000 women aged 25 to 29 years in 2017 and 2018 is available in the attached table.
Abortion statistics for 2017 and 2018 are available at the following links:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales-2018
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales-2017
The Code of Practice outlined in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 prohibits the pre-release of official statistics before the due date of publication. Data on the abortion rate per 1,000 women aged 25 to 29 years in 2019 is still being collected and requires full quality assurance prior to release. Data for 2019 will be published on the 11th June at 9:30am.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent from the public purse on supporting women travelling from Northern Ireland to England and Wales for the purposes of abortion since 2018 .
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The cost of supporting women travelling from Northern Ireland to England to access abortion services in 2018/19 was around £1.08 million. This includes the cost of the procedure and travel and accommodation. The cost of this scheme is met by the Government Equalities Office through funding provided by HM Treasury. The cost of the scheme for 2019/20 is not yet known.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many babies survived an abortion procedure in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017, (d) 2018 and (e) 2019.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This data is not held by the Department.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department collected data on the frequency of each number of repeat abortions performed in England and Wales in 2018.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Data on the number of repeat abortions performed in England and Wales in 2018 is available in the attached table.
Abortion statistics for 2018 are available at the following links:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales-2018