Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women in each of the last five years had a miscarriage.
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) provide information on the number of miscarriages. The table shows the number of miscarriages from 2010/11 to 2014/15 where there was a hospital admission.
Year | Number of miscarriages |
2010-11 | 43,005 |
2011-12 | 42,538 |
2012-13 | 39,800 |
2013-14 | 38,869 |
2014-15 | 38,377 |
Activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector
Source: HES, Health and Social Care Information Centre