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Division Vote (Lords)
5 Feb 2025 - Water (Special Measures) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Lord Porter of Spalding (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 116 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 168 Noes - 112
Division Vote (Lords)
5 Feb 2025 - Water (Special Measures) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Lord Porter of Spalding (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 116 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 123 Noes - 117
Written Question
Abortion: Drugs
Friday 31st January 2025

Asked by: Lord Porter of Spalding (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that medical complications and associated risks arising from at-home tablet-induced abortions are accurately monitored, recorded, and reported.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

It is a legal requirement in England and Wales that all terminations must be notified to the Chief Medical Officer within 14 days of the procedure. The Department provides the HSA4 form for this purpose. Information is collected on the abortion and the woman that had the abortion, including the method of the abortion, whether any abortion pills were taken at home, the gestation, or number of weeks, and details of any known complications.

The Department publishes data from these notifications in annual abortion statistics reports, which include data on complications up until the time of discharge from the abortion service.

In November 2023, the Department published a one-time analysis comparing data from the Department’s Abortion Notification System and the Hospital Episode Statistics, which are produced and controlled by NHS England.

Abortion continues to be a very safe procedure for which major complications are rare at all gestations. The complication rates for the Abortion Notification System and the Hospital Episodes Statistics data remains similar to both before and after the introduction of the home use of early medical abortion pills.

Division Vote (Lords)
28 Jan 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Lord Porter of Spalding (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 116 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 120 Noes - 105
Division Vote (Lords)
21 Jan 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Lord Porter of Spalding (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 170 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 186 Noes - 162
Division Vote (Lords)
21 Jan 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Lord Porter of Spalding (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 70 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 79 Noes - 112
Division Vote (Lords)
21 Jan 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Lord Porter of Spalding (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 160 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 258 Noes - 138
Division Vote (Lords)
21 Jan 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Lord Porter of Spalding (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 175 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 205 Noes - 159
Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 19 Dec 2024
English Devolution

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 19 Dec 2024
Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement

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