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. Caroline Flint The available information is set out in the table. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Gloucestershire1 PCT |Age under 16|Age 16 to 18| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2002 |28 |159 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2003 |34 |224 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2004 |52 |237 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2005 |46 |210 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 Gloucestershire 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| | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Dai Davies 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. Caroline Flint The information requested is shown in the table as follows. ---------------------------------------------------- |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| ----------------------------------------------------