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Teenage Pregnancies

Sarah Teather: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many underage pregnancies there were in each London borough in each year since 1997. [87507]

John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 25 July 2006:

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many underage pregnancies there were in each London borough in each year since 1997. (87507)

Available figures are estimates of the number of pregnancies that resulted in a live birth, stillbirth or termination.

Number of conceptions to girls aged under 16 in each London Borough for the years 1997-2004 (the most recent year for which figures are available), are shown in the attached table. Figures for 2004 are provisional.

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Number of conceptions to girls aged under 16 years by area of usual residence, London, 1997-2004( 1)
Area of usual residence	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004( 1)
London	1,141	1,152	1,058	1,246	1,252	1,229	1,247	1,127
Camden LB	25	24	21	24	22	25	23	14
Hackney LB and City of London	64	65	45	69	62	56	62	52
Hammersmith and Fulham LB	26	16	27	21	22	21	25	11
Haringey LB	50	50	33	60	59	59	46	62
Islington LB	29	20	34	27	37	30	33	35
Kensington and Chelsea LB	16	11	18	19	14	13	8	5
Lambeth LB	81	81	69	78	80	95	100	64
Lewisham LB	66	63	55	62	61	70	74	59
Newham LB	55	54	61	69	71	59	45	47
Southwark LB	59	57	61	63	68	77	83	66
Tower Hamlets LB	23	49	19	39	42	34	28	35
Wandsworth LB	46	46	48	44	48	41	39	27
Westminster City of LB	14	16	20	20	20	17	17	8
Barking and Dagenham LB	43	25	34	45	51	43	44	41
Barnet LB	28	20	28	35	34	27	38	34
Bexley LB	34	37	30	22	34	36	27	36
Brent LB	32	36	49	55	52	50	54	49
Bromley LB	30	29	24	35	33	38	39	36
Croydon LB	64	77	67	78	72	68	57	63
Ealing LB	28	43	31	41	31	32	29	32
Enfield LB	47	33	26	48	43	51	58	46
Greenwich LB	62	52	59	43	51	45	45	49
Harrow LB	22	19	9	15	24	21	18	25
Havering LB	22	22	25	31	23	18	29	25
Hillingdon LB	37	47	27	32	37	39	48	50
Hounslow LB	30	25	41	34	38	25	34	36
Kingston upon Thames LB	14	18	14	10	9	8	9	9
Merton LB	13	26	13	34	20	22	27	24
Redbridge LB	23	20	22	26	26	28	25	25
Richmond upon Thames LB	13	11	7	9	10	9	8	12
Sutton LB	9	25	13	17	17	23	25	20
Waltham Forest LB	36	35	28	41	41	49	50	30
(1) Figures for 2004 are provisional. Note: To preserve confidentiality, counts for City of London have been combined with those for Hackney LB.

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