Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to instruct the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities to regularly and expeditiously report the Hospital Episode Statistics on abortion complications that are treated on an outpatient basis at NHS A&E departments.

The recent release of statistics comparing data from the Department’s Abortion Notification System and the Hospital Episode Statistics was an ad hoc official statistics in development publication, formerly known as experimental statistics. There are currently no plans to issue a similar publication annually.

The Department is inviting views on abortion statistics for England and Wales via an online user engagement survey and via email at abortion.statistics@dhsc.gov.uk.