Developing Countries: Family Planning

(asked on 4th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department takes to ensure that UK aid is not provided to coercive family-planning schemes or to organisations that are complicit in such schemes.


Answered by
Grant Shapps Portrait
Grant Shapps
This question was answered on 9th June 2015

The UK Government supports the work of various international organisations and agencies to promote informed choice, universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights and women’s empowerment. All UK support to improve sexual and reproductive health – including for family planning – must be provided in the context of informed choice.

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