Abortion 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. Dawn Primarolo The information requested is set out in the following table. ---------------------- |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| ----------------------