Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to publish abortion statistics in England and Wales for (1) 2023, and (2) 2024; if so, when; and, if not, why not.

The Department does intend to publish abortion statistics in England and Wales for 2023 and 2024. The publication dates for these statistics have not yet been announced.

Publication of the 2023 statistics is provisionally planned for winter 2025/26. We will announce the exact dates for publication of the 2023 and, later, 2024 data in due course.

The statistics have been delayed due to several operational issues. These include issues associated with moving to a new data processing system and an increase in the number of paper abortion notification forms to process.