HC Deb 22 March 1994 vol 240 cc162-3W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list by regional health authority the number of pregnancies that have been terminated by request by ethnicity for each of the last four years for which she has figures available.

Mr. Sackville

A pregnancy may be terminated only if two registered medical practitioners are of the opinion, formed in good faith, that an abortion is justified under one or more of the grounds specified in the Abortion Act 1967, as amended. The abortion notification sent to the chief medical officer does not include ethnic information.