asked the Secretary of State for Social Services, if he will publish the number of registered deaths assigned to abortion in England and Wales for the year 1976 as classified under each of the ICD codes 640 to 645.

The numbers are as follows:

ENGLAND AND WALES DEATHS 1976
ICD
640	Abortion induced for medical indications	1
641	Abortion induced for other legal indications	0
642	Abortion induced for other reasons	1
643	Spontaneous abortion	2
644	Abortion not specified as induced or spontaneous	3
645	Other abortion	0
	Total	7

The total number of these deaths has been published in OPCS Monitor DH2 77/3. The full details will appear in OPCS publication DH2 No. 3 early in 1978.