To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total cost was of (a) abortions performed (i) before the 12^th week of pregnancy, (ii) between the 12^th and 18^th weeks of pregnancy, (iii) between the 18^th and 24^th weeks of pregnancy and (iv) after the 24^th week of pregnancy and (b) the provision of the morning after pill in each of the last three years for which figures are available. (95113)

Information on the cost of performing abortion by gestation period is not collected centrally.

In addition, the total cost of the provision of emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) is not collected centrally. The available costs to the national health service for prescriptions dispensed in the community in England for the last three years are shown in the following table.

Information is not available on the cost of EHC supplied by: hospitals; community contraceptive clinics; nurses or pharmacists under a Patient Group Direction; private prescriptions; or purchased in pharmacies.