Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many of the terminations of pregnancies affected by neural tube defects carried out in England in each of the past five years involved a patient whose home postcode was not in England.

Information about expenditure on abortions is not collected centrally.

The number of abortions carried out in England and Wales for pregnancies affected by neural tube defects for non-resident patients is given in the table below. The International Code of Diseases includes Q00 Anencephaly, Q01 Encephalocele and Q05 Spina Bifida as Neural Tube Defects.