HC Deb 27 July 1988 vol 138 cc355-9W
Mr. Alton

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the implications for his policy on abortion of the rise in the number of abortions shown in the 1987 abortion statistics.

Mrs. Currie

Like their predecessors of both parties this Government do not take a collective view about abortion beyond ensuring that the law is properly applied.

Ms. Richardson

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will list 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 1987, and the estimated numbers of women aged 15 to 44 years resident in each regional health authority and district health authority in England and Wales in mid-1987.

Mrs. Currie

The available information is given in the table. Population estimates for regional and district health authorities by sex and age have not yet been computed for mid-1987.

Number of notifications of abortions carried out under the Abortion Act 1967, non-National Health Service 'Agency'1 by Regional Health Authority and District Health Authority of usual residence, residents of England and Wales
England and Wales 1987
Of which non-National Health Service agency1
England and Wales 8,041
England 8,029
Wales 12

Of which non-National Health Service agency1
Northern Regional Health Authority 1
Hartlepool District Health Authority
North Tees District Health Authority
South Tees District Health Authority
East Cumbria District Health Authority 1
South Cumbria District Health Authority
West Cumbria District Health Authority
Darlington District Health Authority
Durham District Health Authority
North West Durham District Health Authority
South West Durham District Health Authority
Northumberland District Health Authority
Gateshead District Health Authority
Newcastle District Health Authority
North Tyneside District Health Authority
South Tyneside District Health Authority
Sunderland District Health Authority
Yorkshire Regional Health Authority 483
Hull District Health Authority
East Yorkshire District Health Authority
Grimsby District Health Authority
Scunthorpe District Health Authority 4
Northallerton District Health Authority
York District Health Authority 2
Scarborough District Health Authority
Harrogate District Health Authority
Bradford District Health Authority 1
Airedale District Health Authority
Calderdale District Health Authority 4
Huddersfield District Health Authority 264
Dewsbury District Health Authority 206
Leeds Western District Health Authority
Leeds Eastern District Health Authority
Wakefield District Health Authority
Pontefract District Health Authority 2
Trent Regional Health Authority 214
North Derbyshire District Health Authority
Southern Derbyshire District Health Authority 1
Leicestershire District Health Authority 68
North Lincolnshire District Health Authority 2
South Lincolnshire District Health Authority
Bassetlaw District Health Authority 4
Central Nottinghamshire District Health Authority 1
Nottingham District Health Authority 2
Barnsley District Health Authority 6
Doncaster District Health Authority 128
Rotherham District Health Authority 2
Sheffield District Health Authority
East Anglian Regional Health Authority 3
Cambridge District Health Authority 2
Peterborough District Health Authority
West Suffolk District Health Authority
East Suffolk District Health Authority
Norwich District Health Authority
Great Yarmouth and Waveney District Health Authority
West Norfolk and Wisbech District Health Authority 1
Huntingdon District Health Authority
North West Thames Regional Health Authority 999
North Bedfordshire District Health Authority 2
South Bedfordshire District Health Authority 1
North Hertfordshire District Health Authority 2
East Hertfordshire District Health Authority 3
North West Hertfordshire District Health Authority 2
South West Hertfordshire District Health Authority 1
Barnet District Health Authority 6
Harrow District Health Authority 52
Hillingdon District Health Authority
Hounslow and Spelthorne District Health Authority 3

Of which non-National Health Service agency1
Ealing District Health Authority 7
Brent District Health Authority 908
Paddington and North Kensington District Health Authority 5
Riverside District Health Authority 7
North East Thames Regional Health Authority 44
Basildon and Thurrock District Health Authority
Mid Essex District Health Authority
North East Essex District Health Authority
West Essex District Health Authority 2
Southend District Health Authority
Barking, Havering and Brentwood District Health Authority
Hampstead District Health Authority 6
Bloomsbury District Health Authority 8
Islington District Health Authority 10
City and Hackney District Health Authority 4
Newham District Health Authority 1
Tower Hamlets District Health Authority
Enfield District Health Authority 3
Haringey District Health Authority 7
Redbridge District Health Authority
Waltham Forest District Health Authority 3
South East Thames Regional Health Authority 240
Brighton District Health Authority
Eastbourne District Health Authority
Hastings District Health Authority
South East Kent District Health Authority 1
Canterbury and Thanet District Health Authority
Dartford and Gravesham District Health Authority 1
Maidstone District Health Authority 1
Medway District Health Authority 1
Tunbridge Wells District Health Authority
Bexley District Health Authority 2
Greenwich District Health Authority 3
Bromley District Health Authority 4
West Lambeth District Health Authority 204
Camberwell District Health Authority 17
Lewisham and North Southwark District Health Authority 6
South West Thames Regional Health Authority 54
North West Surrey District Health Authority 1
West Surrey and North East Hampshire District Health Authority 5
South West Surrey District Health Authority 1
Mid Surrey District Health Authority
East Surrey District Health Authority 1
Chichester District Health Authority 2
Mid Downs District Health Authority
Worthing District Health Authority
Croydon District Health Authority 4
Kingston and Esher District Health Authority 3
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton District Health Authority 5
Wandsworth District Health Authority 28
Merton and Sutton District Health Authority 4
Wessex Regional Health Authority 611
East Dorset District Health Authority 163
West Dorset District Health Authority 43
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire District Health Authority 59
Southampton and South West Hampshire District Health Authority 45
Winchester District Health Authority 46
Basingstoke and North Hampshire District Health Authority 64
Salisbury District Health Authority 29
Swindon District Health Authority 47
Bath District Health Authority 99
Isle of Wight District Health Authority 16

Of which non-National Health Service agency1
Oxford Regional Health Authority 158
East Berkshire District Health Authority 4
West Berkshire District Health Authority 3
Aylesbury Vale District Health Authority 2
Wycombe District Health Authority 2
Milton Keynes District Health Authority 135
Nottinghamshire District Health Authority 7
Oxfordshire District Health Authority 2
South Western Regional Health Authority 50
Bristol and Weston District Health Authority 9
Frenchay District Health Authority 7
Southmead District Health Authority 16
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly District Health Authority
Exeter District Health Authority 3
North Devon District Health Authority
Plymouth District Health Authority 2
Torbay District Health Authority 2
Cheltenham and District District Health Authority 5
Gloucester District Health Authority
Somerset District Health Authority 6
West Midlands Regional Health Authority 5,168
Bromsgrove and Redditch District Health Authority 11
Herefordshire District Health Authority 2
Kidderminster and District District Health Authority
Worcester and District District Health Authority 4
Shropshire District Health Authority 5
Mid Staffordshire District Health Authority 14
North Staffordshire District Health Authority
South East Staffordshire District Health Authority 4
Rugby District Health Authority 210
Kettering District Health Authority 3
North Warwickshire District Health Authority 382
South Warwickshire District Health Authority 566
Central Birmingham District Health Authority 321
East Birmingham District Health Authority 315
North Birmingham District Health Authority 159
South Birmingham District Health Authority 354
West Birmingham District Health Authority 571
Coventry District Health Authority 828
Dudley District Health Authority 423
Sandwell District Health Authority 537
Solihull District Health Authority 122
Walsall District Health Authorituy 7
Wolverhampton District Health Authority 333
Mersey Regional Health Authority 2
Chester District Health Authority
Crewe District Health Authority
Halton District Health Authority 1
Macclesfield District Health Authority
Warrington District Health Authority
Liverpool District Health Authority 1
St. Helens and Knowsley District Health Authority
Southport and Formby District Health Authority
South Sefton District Health Authority
Wirral District Health Authority
North Western Regional Health Authority 2
Lancaster District Health Authority
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde District Health Authority
Preston District Health Authority
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley District Health Authority
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale District Health Authority
West Lancashire District Health Authority

Of which non-National Health Service agency1
Chorley and South Ribble District Health Authority
Bolton District Health Authority
Bury District Health Authority
North Manchester District Health Authority
Central Manchester District Health Authority
South Manchester District Health Authority
Oldham District Health Authority
Rochdale District Health Authority 2
Salford District Health Authority
Stockport District Health Authority
Tameside and Glossop District Health Authority
Trafford District Health Authority
Wigan District Health Authority
Wales 12
Clwyd District Health Authority
East Dyfed District Health Authority
Pembrokeshire District Health Authority 1
Gwent District Health Authority 4
Gwynedd District Health Authority
Mid Glamorgan District Health Authority 6
Powys District Health Authority
South Glamorgan District Health Authority 1
West Glamorgan District Health Authority
1 Operations carried out under 'Agency' arrangements in non-National Health Service premises on National Health Service patients.