Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many terminations of pregnancy were carried out by (1) medical means and (2) surgical procedures, in the last year for which statistics are available; and how many of those carried out by medical means (1) involved, and (2) did not involve, an in-person meeting with an abortion provider.

The latest available official statistics show that there were 277,970 legal abortions carried out among residents in England and Wales in 2023, of which 35,765 were carried out by surgical means, and 242,205 were carried out by medical means. Data is not currently available on the number of medical abortions where the patient had an in-person meeting with an abortion provider.