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Mr. Nigel Evans
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many abortions have been performed by the NHS in each year since 1979.
Mr. Sackville
The information is shown in the table; 1991 is the last complete year for which information is available, 1992 data (January-March) are provisional.
| Number of abortions performed in NHS facilities and in non-NHS facilities under agency agreement England and Wales 1979–1992 | ||
| Year | Number of NHS abortions | Number of "Agency" abortions |
| 1979 | 55,767 | Data not available before 1981 |
| 1980 | 60,818 | |
| 1981 | 61,276 | 2,343 |
| 1982 | 62,532 | 4,425 |
| 1983 | 62,817 | 4,620 |
| 1984 | 64,926 | 4,916 |
| 1985 | 65,254 | 5,938 |
| 1986 | 67,529 | 6,839 |
| 1987 | 69,505 | 8,804 |
| 1988 | 69,177 | 9,380 |
| 1989 | 70,786 | 9,207 |
| 1990 | 73,582 | 9,720 |
| 1991 | 75,245 | 9,208 |
| 19921 | 19,301 | 2,881 |
| 1 Provisional January-March 1992. | ||