Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, by what criteria her Department calculated the number of unsafe abortions averted, as identified in her Department's report entitled, Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancy, published in September 2012.

The number was estimated using a computer model for outcomes from reproductive health service delivery programmes. This peer-reviewed model has been extensively tested and takes account of demographic and health data for the country in which services are delivered.