Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government how much was paid to (1) BPAS, (2) MSI Reproductive Choices, and (3) NUPAS, for abortion services and medication in each of the last 5 years.

The latest position on these statistics has been set out on the relevant webpage on the GOV.UK website, and is reproduced below for ease of reference:

“The Abortion statistics for England and Wales 2024 publication is delayed due to several operational issues. These include several technical challenges that have significantly reduced our ability to process paper HSA4 notifications efficiently. This coincided with an increase in the overall number of abortion notifications the Department receives each year.

Together, these factors have created a backlog of data that still requires processing and quality assurance. The data is being validated but the resulting delays to the publication timetable have impacted the timeliness of the now published 2023 statistics and continue to delay publication of 2024 and 2025 statistics.

The Department of Health and Social Care is currently working to deliver an improved service for collecting abortion notifications, designed to support more efficient processing of abortion data and enable more timely publications.

The statistics will be published once the required processing and quality assurance checks have been completed. We will announce the date for publication of the 2024 statistics in due course.”

The information requested on payments is not collected centrally. Although integrated care boards publish monthly transparency data on payments, including payments to BPAS, MSI Reproductive Choices, and NUPAS, this only relates to payments exceeding £25,000.