Abortions

Mr. Drew

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many abortions were carried out in the Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust area on girls aged (a) under 16 and (b) between the ages of 16 and 18 in each year since 1999. (111011)

The available information is set out in the table.

*Number of abortions to women under 19, resident in Gloucestershire*¹ *PCT, 2002*²*-05*
Gloucestershire¹ PCT	Age under 16	Age 16 to 18
2002	28	159
2003	34	224
2004	52	237
2005	46	210
¹Gloucestershire PCT is made up of Cheltenham and Tewkesbury, Cotswold and Vale, and West Gloucestershire PCTs as published between 2002 and 2005. ² Information by PCT is not available prior to 2002

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many teenage abortions were recorded in the latest 12 month period for which figures are available; and what the figures were in each of the five preceding years. (117277)

The information requested is shown in the table as follows.

*Abortions by age under 20, residents, England and Wales, 2000-05*
Age	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Under 14	162	148	168	148	157	137
14	886	918	907	1,023	877	946
15	2,700	2,592	2,658	2,796	2,722	2,703
16	5,439	5,652	5,633	5,768	5,734	5,733
17	7,895	7,963	8,083	8,387	8,402	8,504
18	9,455	9,465	9,182	9,765	10,294	10,119
19	10,429	10,351	10,087	10,327	10,956	10,957
Total	36,966	37,089	36,718	38,214	39,142	39,099

Volume 455: debated on Wednesday 24 January 2007