§ Mrs. Bridget PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many abortions were performed on women who were less than 13 weeks pregnant(a) in each regional health authority and (b) in each district health authority, in England and Wales in 1992 and 1993; and how many of these operations involved admission and discharge of the patient on the same day.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe information for 1992 will be placed in the Library. For reasons of confidentiality, statistics for district health authorities are presented by DHA of woman's usual residence, not by DHA of termination. Information for 1993 is not yet available.
§ Mrs. Bridget PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many fee-paying private bed abortions were performed in NHS hospitals in each regional health authority in England and Wales in 1992 and 1993.
§ Mr. SackvilleInformation on private abortions carried out in national health service hospitals is collected as part of the hospital episode statistics system. The quality and completeness of this data is at present inadequate to provide regional level data but analysis conducted so far indicates that in both 1991–92 and 1992–93 the proportion of all abortions carried out in NHS hospitals that were performed privately was approximately 1.5 per cent.