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Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what percentage of children in service children’s education schools achieved level 4+ at key stage 2 in each year since 1997. [83704]

Mr. Watson: The percentage of children in service children’s education schools that have achieved level 4+ at key stage 2 in each year since 1997 is as follows:

Service Children’s Education
Percentage
	English	Mathematics	Science
1997	71	73	78
1998	74	68	79
1999	73	70	81
2000	75	72	88
2001	76	69	91
2002	75	78	91
2003	77	76	91
2004	82	75	91
2005	83	75	89

Health

Abortion

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research her Department (a) has undertaken and (b) plans to undertake into the psychological effects on women of having early medical abortions at home; and if she will make a statement. [77595]

Caroline Flint: The Department has not undertaken any research into the psychological effects on women having early medical abortions at home and has no plans to do so.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists reviewed the evidence on abortion when updating its evidence-based guideline “The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion” in 2004.

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to her answer of 20 June 2006, Official Report, column 1794W, on abortion, what the evidential basis was for the statement that medical abortion is safe; if she will place in the Library papers that support this; and if she will make a statement. [81162]

Caroline Flint: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by the then Minister of State for Health for Delivery and Quality on 20 December 2005, Official Report, column 2688W.

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Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much her Department paid out in compensation to women who had an abortion as a result of misdiagnosis by national health service hospitals in each of the last five years for which information is available. [83196]

Caroline Flint: The National Health Service Litigation Authority manages clinical negligence claims on behalf of national health service bodies in England. Its data are not categorised in the format requested.

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the NHS abortion rate per 100 live births was in each health authority in England in each of the last three years for which figures are available. [83199]

Caroline Flint: The information requested is shown in the table.

The Health Statistics Quarterly 30 shows that the percentage of conceptions ending in abortion has remained stable.

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NHS abortion rate per 100 live births( 1) , by strategic health authority (SHA), England, 2003-05
SHA of residence of women	2003	2004	2005
England	23.4	23.9	24.5
North East	24.0	24.2	23.0
County Durham and Tees Valley	22.7	21.8	22.0
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear	25.2	26.2	23.9
North West	21.7	22.3	23.5
Cheshire and Merseyside	21.0	23.5	25.7
Cumbria and Lancashire	20.1	19.6	19.8
Greater Manchester	23.3	23.2	24.3
Yorkshire and The Humber	20.8	20.4	21.3
North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire	20.8	20.8	21.0
South Yorkshire	24.3	23.8	24.4
West Yorkshire	18.9	18.2	19.9
East Midlands	20.7	21.6	21.8
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland	19.9	21.3	21.7
Trent	21.2	21.8	21.8
West Midlands	23.5	24.7	26.1
Birmingham and The Black Country	24.1	25.8	27.6
Shropshire and Staffordshire	26.7	20.8	22.5
West Midlands South	19.4	26.4	27.0
East	19.8	19.5	20.1
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	21.2	20.1	20.6
Essex	18.3	19.1	20.7
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire	19.8	19.2	19.2
London	32.4	32.2	32.4
North Central London	33.5	32.7	31.7
North East London	30.3	31.5	31.3
North West London	33.1	32.4	32.3
South East London	38.8	38.2	38.8
South West London	25.4	25.3	27.2
South East	21.6	23.1	23.6
Hampshire and Isle of Wight	21.9	23.0	22.8
Kent and Medway	23.7	24.8	25.0
Surrey and Sussex	20.2	22.1	23.5
Thames Valley	21.3	23.2	23.3
South West	19.5	20.5	21.0
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire	19.4	19.5	20.7
Dorset and Somerset	16.7	21.0	20.9
South West Peninsula	21.9	21.9	21.5
(1) In 2003 the percentage of conceptions ending in abortion was 22.5 per cent. In 2004 (provisional data), it was 22.4 per cent. Provisional data for January to March 2005 is also 22.4 per cent. Source: DH, ONS

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