HC Deb 16 November 1979 vol 973 c808W
Mr. Richard Wainwright

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many abortions were notified as being carried out in the National Health Service and in the non-National Health Service sector within the areas served by the Yorkshire regional health authority and the North-Western regional health authority in each of the years 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979; and how many of these were performed after a 20-week gestation period.

Dr. Vaughan

The numbers so notified of abortions to women normally resident in England and Wales were as follows: