Question follow-through · 117019
Abortion: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many charges there have been for offences relating to the termination of pregnancy through the the pills-by-post scheme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 10 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many charges there have been for offences relating to the termination of pregnancy through the the pills-by-post scheme.
4 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Home Office does collect and publish official statistics on the number of charges for the offences of ‘Procuring illegal abortion’ offences and ‘intentional destruction of a viable unborn child’ recorded by the police in England and Wales.However, it ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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