Question follow-through · 57623

Abortion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) charges, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions for unlawful abortion there have been in England and Wales in each of the last ten years.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
9 Jun 2025
Answer
27 Jun 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) charges, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions for unlawful abortion there have been in England and Wales in each of the last ten years.

  2. 9 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to MP Mr Gregory Campbell East of Londonderry, Democratic Unionist Party on 5 June 2025.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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