Health written question – answered at on 7 November 2002.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many conceptions have been recorded in girls (a) under the age of 16 and (b) under the age of 18 since the commencement of the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy; and what these figures are expressed as (i) a percentage of those girls to whom contraception, including emergency contraception, has been provided through the strategy and (ii) a percentage of the total number of girls in each age range.
The Government's teenage pregnancy strategy was launched in June 1999.
The table shows conception numbers and rates by age of woman at conception for residents of England for 1999 and 2000. Rates for under 16s and under 18s are based on the population of women aged 13–15 and 15–17 respectively. The data for 2000 remains provisional.
1999 | 1999 | 2000 | 2000 | |
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Number | Rate | Number | Rate | |
Under 16 | 7408 | 8.2 | 7617 | 8.3 |
Under 18 | 39,247 | 44.7 | 38,690 | 43.6 |
Source:
Office for National Statistics
Information on conception data as a percentage of those girls to whom contraception, including emergency contraception, has been provided through the strategy, is not available as requested.
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