Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the causes of trends in the number of abortions which were performed on women who had already had an abortion in the last 10 years.

The Department has not made any such assessment in recent years, however, reproductive health charity, Marie Stopes UK, recently launched the findings of the first research (for Under 25s) in the United Kingdom into the contraceptive use of women aged 16-24 having one or more abortions.