Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many abortions were carried out at (a) NHS hospitals and (b) registered clinics in Lancashire in 2016; and how many (i) male and (ii) female foetuses were aborted at each location during that year.

There were 4,564 abortions in Lancashire in 2016. 42% (1,937) were carried out by National Health Service hospitals and 58% (2,627) elsewhere. There is no information held on the sex of the fetus.