Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women per 1,000 resident women have had an abortion. in each of the last five years.

The abortion rate per 1,000 women for 2015 to 2018 is available in the attached table.

Abortion statistics can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales

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 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.