Pregnancy: Screening

(asked on 21st November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women whose child was identified pre-birth as having a disability (a) had an abortion and (b) continued with the pregnancy, in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 29th November 2017

The Department collects and publishes statistics for the number of abortions that are carried out under the statutory ground E (risk that the child would be born ‘seriously handicapped’). This data is published in tables 9a-c of the 2016 abortion statistics in England and Wales:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/652083/Abortion_stats_England_Wales_2016.pdf

Public Health England collects data on congenital anomalies as part of the National congenital anomaly and rare disease registration service. Information on the timing of diagnosis and outcome is published in chapter 2 of the Congenital anomaly statistics 2015:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/630736/Congenital_anomaly_statistics_2015.pdf

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