§ Mr. Jim CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what the most recent statistics are for teenage pregnancy. [172160]
§ Ruth KellyI have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from John Pullinger to Jim Cunningham, dated 9 June 2004:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question asking what the most recent statistics are for teenage pregnancy. I am replying in his absence. (172160)
The most recent complete year for which provisional figures for teenage pregnancy are available is 2001. Final figures will be published later this year.
405WProvisional estimates for the first two quarters of 2002 based on incomplete abortion data were published in May 2004 and are available on the National Statistics website at:
http://www.nationalstatistics.gov.uk/downloads/ theme_health/hsq22_vl.pdf