§ Ms. Richardsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the numbers of non-National Health Service abortions performed under Agency arrangements on National Health Service patients resident in each regional health authority, and in each district health authority, in England and Wales in 1984 and 1985.
§ Mr. NewtonThe information is shown in the table:
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Number of notifications of legal abortions, performed under the Abortion Act 1967, to NHS patients in non-NHS premises ("Agency") by area of usual residence, England and Wales, 1984 and 1985 Area of usual residence Numbers notified 1984 1985 Wales 1 4 DHAs Clwyd — 1 Gwent — 1 Mid Glamorgan — 1 South Glamorgan 1 1 Northern RHA 1 — DHA East Cumbria 1 — Yorkshire RHA 330 383 DHA Calderdale 2 — Dewsbury 127 158 Huddersfield 199 220 Hull — 1 Leeds Western 1 3 Wakefield — 1 York 1 — Trent RHA 47 75 DHA Barnsley 1 1 Doncaster 1 2 Leicestershire 45 67 Nottingham — 1 Sheffield — 2 Southern Derbyshire — 2
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Area of usual residence Numbers notified 1984 1985 East Anglian RHA 1 2 DHA Peterborough — 1 West Suffolk 1 1 North West Thames RHA 811 904 DHA Barnet 5 6 Brent 770 848 Ealing 5 15 East Hertfordshire 1 — Harrow 12 15 Hammersmith & Fulham 2 1 Hillingdon — 1 Hounslow and Spelthorne 3 1 North Hertfordshire 1 1 North West Hertfordshire — 3 Paddington and North Kensington 4 3 South Bedfordshire 3 5 South West Hertfordshire 1 — Victoria 4 5 North East Thames RHA 11 14 DHA Barking, Havering and Brentwood — 1 Basildon and Thurrock 1 — Bloomsbury 1 — City and Hackney 6 — Enfield — 1 Hampstead — 3 Haringey — 3 Islington 2 — North East Essex 1 1 Redbridge — 2 Southend — 1 Tower Hamlets — 1 Waltham Forest — 1 South East Thames RHA 11 18 DHA Bexley — 1 Bromley 1 1 Camberwell — 3 Canterbury and Thanet — 2 Dartford and Gravesham — 1 Greenwich 1 — Hastings 1 — Lewisham and North Southwark 1 2 Maidstone 7 1 West Lambeth — 7 South West Thames RHA 18 34 DHA Chichester — 1 Croydon 1 2 Kingston and Esher 1 — Merton and Sutton 3 1 Mid Surrey 1 — North West Surrey 3 — Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 5 1 South West Surrey 1 — Wandsworth — 27 West Surrey and North East Hampshire 3 2 Wessex RHA 540 578 DHA Basingstoke and North Hampshire 51 58 Bath 107 96 East Dorset 159 163 Isle of Wight 12 17 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 55 68 Salisbury 33 28
Area of usual residence Numbers notified 1984 1985 Southampton and South West Hampshire 11 20 Swindon 53 49 West Dorset 22 34 Winchester 37 45 Oxford RHA 10 11 DHA East Berkshire 3 3 Kettering 1 3 Milton Keynes 1 2 Northamptonshire 1 2 West Berkshire 4 — Wycombe — 1 South Western RHA 16 17 DHA Bristol and Weston 1 3 Cheltenham and District 1 — Cornwall and Isles of Scilly — 1 Exeter 6 5 Gloucester 1 — Plymouth 1 1 Somerset 6 6 Torbay — 1 West Midlands RHA 3,103 3,882 DHA Bromsgrove and Redditch 9 10 Central Birmingham 267 284 Coventry 12 297 Dudley 319 359 East Birmingham 203 259 Herefordshire — 1 Kidderminster and District 1 3 Mid Staffordshire 16 19 North Birmingham 119 174 North Warwickshire 271 297 Rugby 153 184 Sandwell 397 451 Solihull 4 14 South Birmingham 277 353 South East Staffordshire 4 1 South Warwickshire 387 454 Shropshire 1 2 Walsall 19 12 Wolverhampton 254 255 West Birmingham 387 451 Worcester and District 3 2 Mersey RHA 2 3 DHA Crewe — 1 Liverpool 1 — Macclesfield — 1 St. Helens and Knowsley 1 — South Sefton — 1 North Western RHA 10 4 DHA Bury 1 — Central Manchester 1 — Oldham 3 — Rochdale 5 3 South Manchester — 1 RHA: Regional Health Authority.
DHA: District Health Authority.
Areas for which no such abortions were performed are omitted.
§ Ms. Richardsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are numbers of deaths attributed to legal abortion in England and Wales in each of the years 1960 to 1985 inclusive.
§ Mr. NewtonThe available statistics from the registration of deaths are shown in the tables. Because of348W changes in the international classification of diseases, figures from 1979 to date are not comparable with those of earlier years.
Before 1979 it is not possible to distinguish between spontaneous abortion and other forms of abortion, and statistics for this period include maternal deaths where the interval between the onset of the maternal condition and death is up to one year.
From 1979, a maternal death is defined as the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes.
Number of deaths registered with underlying cause as due to all forms of abortion excluding criminal abortion England and Wales 1960–1978 All forms of abortion excluding criminal abortion ICD (8) 640, 641, 643–645 Year 1960 32 1961 31 1962 28 1963 28 1964 26 1965 31 1966 23 1967 17 1968 28 1969 20 1970 21 1971 21 1972 19 1973 8 1974 9 1975 7 1976 6 1977 5 1978 5
Number of deaths registered with underlying cause as due to Legally Induced Abortion England and Wales 1979–1985 Legally induced abortion ICD (9) 635 Year 1979 2 1980 1 1981 1 1982 2 1983 — 1984 1 1985 3
§ Ms. Richardsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the numbers of National Health Service abortions, and of non-National Health Service abortions, performed in Great Britain on women resident in each health board in Scotland in 1984 and 1985 and the estimated numbers of women aged 15–44 years resident in each health board in 1984.
§ Mr. NewtonThe exact information requested can be produced only at disproportionate cost. However, readily available figures are shown in the table.
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Numbers of notifications of legal abortions carried out in Great Britain to women usually resident in Scotland by Health Board Area (HBA) of usual residence,; total abortions to Scottish residents by category of premises, 1984, 1985 Estimated population of women aged 15–44 years by HBA, Scotland, 1984 Number of notifications Health board area of usual residence 1984 1985 Estimated population women aged 15–44 Argyll and Clyde 667 589 96,694 Ayrshire and Arran 699 659 80,682 Borders 145 140 20,056 Dumfries and Galloway 294 263 29,777 Fife 723 734 74,312 Forth Valley 475 498 59,655 Grampian 1,176 1,087 109,857 Greater Glasgow 1,763 1,817 208,533 Highland 434 427 41,640 Lanarkshire 851 801 128,161 Lothian 1,684 1,766 168,551 Orkney Islands 26 26 3,877 Shetland Islands 36 30 4,950 Tayside 923 956 82,870 Western Isles 26 30 5,649 Total all Scottish residents 9,922 9,823 1,115,264 NHS premises 8,952 8,903 non-NHS premises 970 920