Speeches

David Amess – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Amess on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which 10 primary care areas in England had the (a) highest and (b) lowest abortion rates per 1,000 women aged between 15 and 44 years in 2013.

Jane Ellison

The following tables show the information requested.

Table 1: Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) with the 10 highest abortion rates, 2013

CCG Name

Rate per 1,000 resident women aged 15-44 ASR 1, 2

NHS Barking and Dagenham

31.4

NHS Croydon

26.9

NHS Greenwich

26.6

NHS Lewisham

26.6

NHS Waltham Forest

25.8

NHS Southwark

25.0

NHS Brent

25.0

NHS Hounslow

24.6

NHS Lambeth

24.0

NHS Redbridge

23.8

1Rates for CCGs are based on mid-2013 population estimates.

2Aged Standardised Rates are calculated using the 2013 European Standard Population (ESP).

Table 2: CCGs with the 10 lowest abortion rates, 2013

CCG Name

Rate per 1,000 resident women aged 15-44 ASR 1, 2

NHS Hardwick

9.2

NHS Vale of York

9.7

NHS North Durham

9.9

NHS South Norfolk

10.1

NHS North Derbyshire

10.1

NHS North Norfolk

10.2

NHS West Suffolk

10.5

NHS Rushcliffe

10.5

NHS South Lincolnshire

10.7

NHS Bath and North East Somerset

10.8

1Rates for CCGs are based on mid-2013 population estimates.

2Aged Standardised Rates are calculated using the 2013 ESP.