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	date	05/11/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Contraceptives
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled Women's Lives, Women's Rights: Strengthening Access to Contraception Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic, published by the All-party Parliamentary Group on Sexual and Reproductive Health on 10 September 2020, whether he has plans in place to maintain the level of funding for contraceptive outreach services for marginalised and under-served communities.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
	tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
	uin	112027
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2021 answer text <p>The Government has mandated local authorities in England to commission comprehensive open access sexual health services, including the provision of free contraception. Contraception is also widely available free of charge through general practice. The Government provides funding to local authorities for their public health responsibilities, including sexual health services, through the public health grant. It is for individual local authorities to decide their spending priorities based on an assessment of local need, including the need for sexual health services taking account of their statutory duties.</p><p>The Department secured a Spending Round settlement in 2019 for local government, with the public health grant receiving a welcome increase in real terms in 2020/21. Decisions on future funding will be a matter for the Spending Review.</p><p>No specific assessment has been made of the impact of the public health grant on access to contraception.</p><p>The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sexual and Reproductive Health’s report, ‘Women's Lives, Women's Rights: Strengthening Access to Contraception Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic’, has raised a number of important issues. The recommendations in the report will be considered as part of our upcoming work to develop the sexual and reproductive health strategy.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 112028 112029 question first answered 03/02/2021 17:06:00 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1249223

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Contraceptives
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the reduction in public health grant on women's access to effective and appropriate contraception.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
	tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
	uin	112029
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2021 answer text <p>The Government has mandated local authorities in England to commission comprehensive open access sexual health services, including the provision of free contraception. Contraception is also widely available free of charge through general practice. The Government provides funding to local authorities for their public health responsibilities, including sexual health services, through the public health grant. It is for individual local authorities to decide their spending priorities based on an assessment of local need, including the need for sexual health services taking account of their statutory duties.</p><p>The Department secured a Spending Round settlement in 2019 for local government, with the public health grant receiving a welcome increase in real terms in 2020/21. Decisions on future funding will be a matter for the Spending Review.</p><p>No specific assessment has been made of the impact of the public health grant on access to contraception.</p><p>The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sexual and Reproductive Health’s report, ‘Women's Lives, Women's Rights: Strengthening Access to Contraception Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic’, has raised a number of important issues. The recommendations in the report will be considered as part of our upcoming work to develop the sexual and reproductive health strategy.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 112027 112028 question first answered 03/02/2021 17:06:00 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham