Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government to what they attribute the increase in the number of paper HSA4 forms being submitted in respect of information on medical abortions since the relevant amendments to the Abortion Act 1967 in 2022.

The increase in the number of paper HSA4 forms in recent years is due to a number of factors, including an ongoing trend of increasing numbers of abortions performed annually since 2017. The Department has worked with abortion providers to encourage the submission of notifications electronically.