HC Deb 01 December 1969 vol 792 cc208-9W
Mr. Dempsey

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what amount was charged to a foreign woman who had an abortion carried out under the National Health Service during the first year of the new abortion law.

Mr. Crossman

Foreign women who are normally resident in this country are eligible to have abortions under the National Health Service free of charge. Foreign women who visit this country for the purpose of having abortions are not eligible to have them under the National Health Service free services.

Foreign women who have abortions at National Health Service hospitals as private patients would pay the doctors treating them privately such fees as may be agreed between them. In addition they would pay the hospital charges determined for private patients.