§ Ms PrimaroloTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many women from(a) Jersey, (b) Guernsey and (c) other Channel islands have had legal abortions in England in each year from 1968 to 1992; and at what gestational age.
§ Mr. Sackville[holding answer 23 May 1994]: The information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, the total number of legal abortions for residents of the Channel islands performed in England and Wales in 1992 was 370; of these, the gestation period was under nine weeks for 119, nine to 12 weeks for 207, 13 to 19 weeks for 38 and 20 weeks and over for six. Information for 1970 to 1991 inclusive is shown in the table, but only grouped as Channel islands, or from 1970 to 1985 Channel islands and the Isle of Man. A breakdown 127W of these figures by age-group for 1974 onwards is given in part (i) of table 25 in the annual reference volume "Abortion Statistics" series AB 1 nos. 1 to 18; copies of which are available in the Library.
Legal abortions in England and Wales to women usually resident1 in the Channel islands and Isle of Man. Channel Islands Isle of Man 1970 165 1971 215 1972 295 1973 306 1974 371 1975 373 1976 336 1977 389 1978 413 1979 457 1980 484 1981 455 1982 467 1983 462 1984 454 1985 515 1986 418 148 1987 416 158 1988 445 182 1989 488 221 1990 465 232 1991 462 191 1 Data by country of usual residence are not available for 1968 and 1969