PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Abortion: Drugs (7 July 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to collect data on the number of women presenting in clinical settings as a result of complications arising from (a) incomplete procedures and (b) retained products of conception following an early medical abortion at home; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by:
Gareth Bacon (Conservative)

The Department is undertaking a project to review the system of recording abortion complications and we anticipate this work will be completed later this year. The review will cover all data on complications arising from abortion.

Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
13 July 2021