Congenital Abnormalities: Abortion

(asked on 11th October 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Jim Shannon Portrait
Jim Shannon
(Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many abortions have been performed on the grounds of possible abnormalities detected in the womb in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford Portrait
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
This question was answered on 19th October 2016

Data for the last five years derived from HSA4 forms notifying abortions is available through the following links:

Year

Data

2011

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/200529/Abortion_statistics__England_and_Wales_2011.pdf

2012

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/307650/Abortion_statistics__England_and_Wales.pdf

2013

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/319460/Abortion_Statistics__England_and_Wales_2013.pdf

2014

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/433437/2014_Commentary__5_.pdf

2015

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/529344/Abortion_Statistics_2015_v3.pdf

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