Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many abortions were performed in 2013; and how many and what proportion of such procedures were performed to save the life of the mother.
In 2013, 185,331 abortions were performed to residents of England and Wales. Of these, 56 abortions were performed under ground A (the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, section 1(1)(c)) and zero under ground F (to save the life of the pregnant woman, section 1(4)).