HC Deb 13 February 1995 vol 254 cc496-7W
Mr. Gareth Wardell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the number and rate of(a) conception, (b) full-term pregnancies and (c) terminations for each of the last 10 years for girls in the age group 12 to 15 years; and if she will indicate the levels of disaggregation for which figures are available currently.

Mr. Sackville

The information available for England as a whole is shown in the table. Corresponding information for regional health authorities is published in birth statistics series FM1—Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys—and that for district health authorities from 1986 onwards, with rates averaged over three-year periods, in the OPCS monitor, "Conceptions in England and Wales 1991: residents of regional and district health authority areas FM1 94/1", copies of which are in the Library.

Conception at ages under 16 England
Year Number
1984 9,096
1985 8,829
1986 8,684
1987 8,590
1988 8,246
1989 7,922
1990 8,111
1991 7,362
19921 7,475
1 Provisional.

Note:

1. Rates in the table use the mid-year population estimates revised following the rebasing of mid-1991 estimates using the 1991 Census of Population.

Rates per 1,000 women aged 13–15 England
Conceptions leading to
Year Total conceptions maternities abortions
1984 8.7 3.8 4.9
1985 8.6 3.8 4.9
1986 8.8 4.0 4.8
1987 9.3 4.2 5.1
1988 9.4 4.3 5.0
1989 9.4 4.5 4.9
1990 10.0 4.9 5.1
1991 9.3 4.5 4.8
19921 9.2 2 2
1 Provisional.
2 Data not yet available.

Note:

1. Rates in the table use the mid-year population estimates revised following the rebasing of mid-1991 estimates using the 1991 Census of Population.