§ Dr. McDonaldasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the 451W National Health Service abortion rate per 100 live births in each of the English and Welsh hospital regions and in Scotland and in Great Britain as a whole for each of the years 1978 and 1979.
§ Sir George YoungThe abortion rates per 100 live births in NHS hospitals in each of the English and Welsh hospital regions and in Scotland and in Great Britain for 1978 are shown below.
Figures are also shown for England and Wales, Scotland and Great Britain for 1979, but the data for hospital regions are not yet available.
NUMBER OF ABORTIONS PER 100 LIVE BIRTHS BY RHA OF RESIDENCE IN NHS HOSPITALS (Residents) Abortions per 100 births live RHA of residence 1978 1979‡ Northern 12.3 .. Yorkshire 5.9 .. Trent 8.7 .. East Anglian 11.0 .. North West Thames 12.6 .. North East Thames 13.2 .. South East Thames 11.9 .. South West Thames 9.6 .. Wessex 8.6 .. Oxford 8.6 .. South-Western 12.0 .. West Midlands 4.1 .. Mersey 5.2 .. North-Western 7.4 .. Wales 10.5 .. England and Wales* 9.2 8.6 Scotland† 13.0 12.8 Great Britain 9.6 9.0 * Includes 26 (1978) and 24 (1979) residents of England and Wales having abortions in Scotland. These figures cannot be allocated to the individual regions. † Includes 976 (1978) and 1,020 (1979) residents of Scotland having abortions in England and Wales. ‡ Provisional figures only. .. Figures not yet available.