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Childbirth

Volume 459: debated on Thursday 26 April 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many births in Northern Ireland in the last year were to mothers aged (a) 17 years, (b) 16 years, (c) 15 years and (d) under 15 years of age, broken down by health board area. (133915)

The following table gives the number of live- and still-births1 registered in 20063 by age and Health and Social Services Board2 of residence of mother.

Mother’s age

Eastern HSSB

Northern HSSB

Southern HSSB

Western HSSB

Northern Ireland

Under 15 years

4

2

0

1

7

15

11

12

4

2

29

16

59

33

11

10

113

17

114

53

38

52

257

1 Birth is defined to be either live- or still-birth. Pregnancies which resulted in the birth of twins, triplets or other multiple births are counted twice, three times, etc.

2 Births have been allocated to the area of usual residence of the mother based on her postcode. The data include only those births to mothers resident in Northern Ireland at the time of birth.

3 Provisional data.