HC Deb 30 October 1997 vol 299 c862W
Dr. Vis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the average cost of a first trimester NHS abortion in England and Wales for each of the last five years. [12957]

Ms Jowell

Information on the costs of specific operations is not held centrally because of a number of factors including the many different types of operations, the variation in cost from hospital to hospital and the logistics of administering such a diverse range of data.