Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many non-residents received abortions in England and Wales in (a) 2017, (b) 2018, and (c) 2019.

Data on the number of legal abortions performed on non-residents of England and Wales 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 vast majority of non-resident abortions are paid for privately.

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 number of legal abortions performed on non-residents of England and Wales in 2019 is still being collected and requires full quality assurance prior to release. Data for 2019 will be published on 11 June at 9:30am.