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Written Answers

Wednesday 23 June 2010

The following Question should have been printed on Tuesday 22 June 2010.

Bailiffs

Question

Asked by Lord Greaves

To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they will take to implement the pledge in The Coalition: Our Programme for Government to "provide more protection against aggressive bailiffs and unreasonable charging orders, ensure that courts have the power to insist that repossession is always a last resort, and ban orders for sale on unsecured debts of less than £25,000."[HL427]

The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord McNally): The Government are currently considering the public comments received on The Coalition: Our Programme for Government and will announce their plans in due course.

Abortion

Questions

Asked by Lord Alton of Liverpool

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many women aged (a) 12, (b) 13, (c) 14, (d) 15, (e) 16, (f) 17 and (g) 18 years old in each strategic health authority area who had (1) one, (2) two, (3) three, (4) four, (5) five, (6) six, (7) seven, (8) eight, (9) nine and (10) 10 or more previous abortions had an abortion in (i) 2008, and (ii) 2009.[HL492]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Earl Howe): The information we can provide for 2008 and 2009 is shown in the following tables. The department has withheld data where there are totals of less than 10 (between zero and nine) cases as we believe the disclosure of this information could breach an individual's confidentiality. This is in accordance with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) guidance on the disclosure of abortion statistics (2005).

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Previous abortions by age under 19 and Strategic Health Authority of residence, 2008.
		Age
Strategic Health Authority	Previous abortions	under 18	18	Total under age 19
East of England	0	1,431	891	2,322
	1+	106	173	279
	Total	1,537	1,064	2,601
East Midlands	0	1,342	697	2,039
	1+	84	98	182
	Total	1,426	795	2,221
London	0	2,756	1,601	4,357
	1+	372	464	836
	Total	3,128	2,065	5,193
North East	0	946	424	1,370
	1+	56	55	111
	Total	1,002	479	1,481
North West	0	2,674	1,385	4,059
	1+	206	218	424
	Total	2,880	1,603	4,483
South Central	0	1,052	547	1,599
	1+	83	105	188
	Total	1,135	652	1,787
South East	0	1,259	692	1,951
	1+	105	124	229
	Total	1,364	816	2,180
South West	0	1,509	756	2,265
	1+	114	111	225
	Total	1,623	867	2,490
Yorkshire and Humber	0	1,858	933	2,791
	1+	127	144	271
	Total	1,985	1,077	3,062
West Midlands	0	2,046	1,001	3,047
	1+	213	241	454
	Total	2,259	1,242	3,501
Wales	0	976	533	1,509
	1+	72	74	146
	Total	1,048	607	1,655
England and Wales	0	17,849	9,460	27,309
	1+	1,538	1,807	3,345
	Total	19,387	11,267	30,654

Notes:

Ages and number of previous abortions are grouped where totals are less than 10 (between zero and nine) or where a presented total would reveal a suppressed value from previously published data.

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