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Rev. Martin Smyth
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list by year from 1980 to 1990 the number of illegitimate births by year to teenage mothers by age.
Mr. Dorrell
The numbers of births outside marriage to women aged 19 and under in the United Kingdom for the years 1980–1990 were as follows:
| Age of mother at birth | ||||||
| Year | 15 and under | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | Total under 20 |
| 1980 | 1,418 | 3,527 | 7,040 | 8,553 | 8,544 | 29,082 |
| 1981 | 1,276 | 3,668 | 6,808 | 9,056 | 8,943 | 29,751 |
| 1982 | 1,306 | 3,628 | 7,607 | 9,719 | 10,249 | 32,509 |
| 1983 | 1,397 | 3,807 | 7,715 | 10,212 | 11,243 | 34,374 |
| 1984 | 1,469 | 4,059 | 8,529 | 11,156 | 12,303 | 37,516 |
| 1985 | 1,544 | 4,408 | 9,328 | 12,719 | 13,829 | 41,828 |
| 1986 | 1,517 | 4,442 | 9,907 | 13,840 | 15,345 | 45,051 |
| 1987 | 1,458 | 4,622 | 10,099 | 14,906 | 16,655 | 47,740 |
| 1988 | 1,444 | 4,764 | 11,018 | 15,355 | 18,034 | 50,615 |
| 1989 | 1,472 | 4,549 | 10,417 | 15,435 | 17,502 | 49,375 |
| 1990 | 1,454 | 4,454 | 10,590 | 15,295 | 18,716 | 50,509 |