Pregnancy
(asked on 27th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of pregnancies that are unplanned.
This question was answered on 9th May 2016
There is no data that assesses whether a pregnancy is unplanned. However, the findings from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles published in the Lancet in November 2013 estimated that 16.2% of pregnancies are unplanned.
The full article can be found at:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)62035-8/abstract