Hansard

Abortion

Volume 467: debated on Thursday 15 November 2007

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Fiona Mactaggart

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the proportion of English conceptions which ended in terminations in each of the last five years. (162974)

Dawn Primarolo

The information requested is set out in the following table.

Annual statistics on abortions as a percentage of all conceptions (England and Wales) since 2001

Conceptions—all ages

Total (thousand)

Percentage ending in abortion

2001

763.7

23.2

2002

787.0

22.5

2003

806.8

22.5

2004

826.8

22.4

2005

837.4

22.3