Diane Abbott
Shadow Minister (Public Health)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many abortions have been undertaken (a) up to and including and (b) after the twelfth week of pregnancy in each year since 2008.
Anna Soubry
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
The information requested is set out in the following table. 2011 is the latest year for which data is available.
| Abortions by gestation group, residents of England and Wales, 2008-11 | |||
| Under 13 weeks | 13 weeks and over | Total | |
| 2011 | 173,176 | 16,755 | 189,931 |
| 2010 | 172,735 | 16,839 | 189,574 |
| 2009 | 171,279 | 17,821 | 189,100 |
| 2008 | 176,306 | 18,990 | 195,296 |
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