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Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which 10 primary care organisations had the (a) highest and (b) lowest abortion rates in England per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 years in 2007. [279079]

Gillian Merron: Information for 2007 is shown in the following table.

Highest and lowest abortion rates by primary care organisation, England, 2007
		Age standardised rate per 1,000 women resident, aged 15-44( 1)
	England	18.8
Lowest rates
5PP	Cambridgeshire	11
5ND	County Durham	12
5NF	North Lancashire Teaching	12
5FL	Bath and North East Somerset	13
5PW	North East Essex	13
5QE	Oxfordshire	13
5NW	East Riding of Yorkshire	13
5PT	Suffolk	13
5NV	North Yorkshire and York	13
5PH	North Staffordshire	13
Highest rates
5C9	Haringey Teaching	32
5K9	Croydon	33
5K5	Brent Teaching	35
5A8	Greenwich Teaching	35
5NC	Waltham Forest	36
5C3	City and Hackney Teaching	36
5LF	Lewisham	37
5LD	Lambeth	39
5C2	Barking and Dagenham	40
5LE	Southwark	41
(1) Rates for PCOs are based on 2006 mid-year population estimates.

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Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 23 April 2009, Official Report, columns 830-32W, on abortion, what the characteristics were of the statistically most likely candidate in (a) England and (b) each health authority for an abortion in 2008 in terms of (i) the marital status of the woman, (ii) the age of the woman, (iii) the gestation of the
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pregnancy, (iv) the number of previous children borne by the woman, (v) the number of previous abortions undergone by the woman and (vi) the legal grounds under which the abortion was performed. [279122]

Gillian Merron: The information is shown in the following table.

Most common( 1) conditions for women having abortions in 2008, by strategic health authority of residence
	Marital status	Age	Gestation (weeks)	Number of previous children	Number of previous abortions	Ground
England	Single with partner	20	7	0	0	C
East Midlands	Single with partner	20	8	0	0	C
East of England	Single with partner	18	8	0	0	C
London	Single with partner	24	7	0	0	C
North East	Single with partner	19	7	0	0	C
North West	Single no partner	20	6	0	0	C
South Central	Single with partner	20	7	0	0	C
South East Coast	Single with partner	19	7	0	0	C
South West	Single with partner	20	8	0	0	C
West Midlands	Single no partner	21	7	0	0	C
Yorkshire and Humber	Single with partner	20	8	0	0	C
(1) Statistical mode (highest frequency). Note: Ground C: that the pregnancy has not exceeded its 24th week and that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman.

Abortion: Essex

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many abortions were performed in (a) Southend and (b) Essex in 2008, broken down by (i) age of the women, (ii) grounds of the abortion and (iii) gestation of the pregnancy. [279045]

Gillian Merron: The information is shown in the following tables.

Abortions for residents of Essex primary care trusts (PCTs)( 1) by age, ground and gestation, 2008
Age	South East Essex	North East Essex	Mid Essex	South West Essex	West Essex	Total Essex PCTs
Under 16	24	16	19	36	15	110
16	37	25	24	54	34	174
17	53	38	55	60	45	251
18	61	57	70	95	79	362
19	71	54	57	103	72	357
20	68	56	52	83	58	317
21	66	45	49	107	71	338
22	59	46	43	102	47	297
23	55	39	46	89	48	277
24	43	40	54	79	54	270
25	50	34	37	65	40	226
26	38	35	24	70	39	206
27	40	25	45	77	46	233
28	41	28	29	74	46	218
29	33	18	27	61	33	172
30	37	20	26	61	38	182
31	28	21	35	33	34	151
32	28	18	22	44	32	144
33	25	26	25	57	33	166
34	38	17	26	42	21	144
35	36	23	29	34	29	151
36	22	14	26	32	37	131
37	24	17	19	30	29	119
38 and over	71	48	93	123	107	442
Total	1,048	760	932	1,611	1,087	5,438

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