Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women who had an abortion in 2019 had one or more previous abortions.

Data on how many women who had an abortion in 2019 had one or more previous abortions is still being collected and requires full quality assurance prior to release. Data for 2019 will be published on 11 June at 9:30am. 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.