Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the abortion rate was for 18-19 year old women per 1,000 in (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019.
The abortion rate per 1,000 women aged 18 to 19 years in 2017 and 2018 is available in the attached table.
Abortion statistics for 2017 and 2018 are available at the following links:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales-2018
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales-2017
The Code of Practice outlined in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 prohibits the pre-release of official statistics before the due date of publication. Data on the abortion rate per 1,000 women aged 18 to 19 years in 2019 is still being collected and requires full quality assurance prior to release. Data for 2019 is due to be published on 11 June.