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Written question asked by Jim Dobbin (Labour) on Tuesday, 24 May 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 26 May 2005. It was answered by Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Labour) on Monday, 6 June 2005 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

Family Planning Funding

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much money her Department has given in each of the last five years to (a) Brook, (b) Family Planning Association, (c) Marie Stopes International, (d) British Pregnancy Advisory Service and (e) Education for Choice; and for what purposes.
Answer

The amounts paid by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) to the organisations listed in the question, along with a summary of the purpose for which the payments were made, are included in the following table. This reply does not include payments which may have been made by the Department of Health in support of the teenage pregnancy strategy, before responsibility for the strategy was transferred to DfES in April 2004.

Organisation Amount (£) Purpose
October 2004 to March 2006 FPA 250,637 Delivery of the ‘Speakeasy' training programme, which enables parents and carers to have more confidence and knowledge in speaking to their children about sex and relationships
2004/05 FPA 10,000 To develop Good Practice Guidance for Primary Care Trusts on delivering young people friendly sexual health advice services
2004/06 FPA 58,000 To develop and deliver a training course for health and non-health professionals, to enable them to provide more proactive contraceptive advice to help young people to avoid second unplanned pregnancies—estimates suggest that 20 per cent. of births conceived to under-18s are second pregnancies
2004/06 FPA 20,565 To deliver courses on sex, relationships, pregnancy and parenthood for those working with looked after children and young people
2004/05 Brook 11,282 To develop a new contraception information leaflet for young parents to help support them in preventing second unplanned pregnancies
2004/06 Education for Choice 38,000 Delivery of training programmes for health and education professionals to facilitate discussion about pregnancy and abortion; revision and development of EfC website; work with boys and young men; and support for parents to help them discuss pregnancy choices and abortion

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
1516; 434 c334w;434 c336W
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Advisory services Expenditure Family planning Brook Advisory Centres FPA Education for Choice
Contains statistics
Yes