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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pregnancy (27 April 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of pregnancies that are unplanned.

Asked by:
Anna Turley (Labour)

Answer

There is no data that assesses whether a pregnancy is unplanned. However, the findings from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles published in the Lancet in November 2013 estimated that 16.2% of pregnancies are unplanned.

The full article can be found at:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)62035-8/abstract


Answered by:
Jane Ellison (Conservative)
9 May 2016

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