Health: Contraceptive Services Debate
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Lord Watts
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Health: Contraceptive Services
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Lord O’Shaughnessy
The noble Baroness is quite right that there is an obligation in the GP contract. We are in the process of renegotiating the contract for the next financial year, and I shall certainly take that issue back and feed it in to the team that is carrying out the negotiation.
Lord Watts (Lab)
My Lords, now that austerity is over, when will local government budgets be restored so that local authorities can address issues such as the one we are hearing about today?
Lord O’Shaughnessy
Local authority budgets will of course be a matter for the spending review that will take place at some point during the next year.