PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Abortion (11 May 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the response from Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust to freedom of information request RFI-003971 stating that there had been seven admissions with complications following a medical abortion from 31 March to 1 September 2020 and his Department's data, which showed there has been only one reported complication for medical abortions at home in from January to June 2020, what assessment he has made of the reliability of the process of reporting complications from medical abortions at home given differences in the data referred to.

Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)

The Department is examining, with partner organisations, how well data collection systems are working in relation to recording complications arising from abortions and what improvements are needed.

Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
18 May 2021