§ Mrs. Bridget PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many abortions, funded by the NHS, were performed(a) in hospitals, (b) by charitable organisations and (c) by commercial organisations on women resident in England and Wales in each year since 1981.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, statistics of the number of abortions performed since 1981 on women resident in England and Wales in (a) national health service hospitals and (b) non-NHS premises under agency agreement (that is, abortions performed on NHS patients in non-NHS premises) are shown in the table.
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Year Number of abortions carried out in NHS hospitals Number of abortions carried out under agency agreement 1981 61,103 2,343 1982 62,409 4,425 1983 62,609 4,614
Year Number of abortions carried out in NHS hospitals Number of abortions carried out under agency agreement 1984 64,823 4,912 1985 65,176 5,929 1986 67,451 6,819 1987 69,442 8,041 1988 69,103 9,357 1989 70,722 9,200 1990 73,517 9,582 1991 75,172 9,197
§ Mrs. Bridget PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the number of NHS abortions under 13 weeks since the last menstrual period, and the number of these operations involving admission and discharge on the same date, performed on women resident in each regional health authority and in each district health authority area in England and Wales in 1991.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe information has been placed in the Library.
§ Mrs. Bridget PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many pregnancies were terminated in the United Kingdom in each year since 1987.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe Abortion Act 1967 applies to Great Britain only. The numbers of legal abortions notified to the chief medical officers of England, Wales and Scotland in each year since 1987 are shown in the table:
Year Number of Abortions 1987 183,736 1988 193,926 1989 194,183 1990 197,131 1991 190,562