To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of abortions were carried out by the NHS in each (i) district health authority, (ii) regional health authority and (iii) in total in each of the last five years; and what was the total number of abortions performed in each year. [39649]

The information will he placed in the Library.The total number of abortions—residents and non-residents—performed in each year are published for the years 1990 to 1992 in "Abortion Statistics 1992" (OPCS Series AB no.19, table 2). The corresponding figures for 1993 and 1994 are published in "Legal abortions in England and Wales 1994" (OPCS Monitor series 95/8, table 1), copies of which are available in the Library.