Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of money each local authority spent on contraceptive services in each year since 2013.

Since 2013/14 Public Health England has provided a ring fenced grant to upper tier local authorities for meeting all of their public health responsibilities.

‘Sexual health services - Contraception (prescribed functions)’ is one of the categories that local authorities spend their grant. The attached table shows the spend and budget data published to date against ‘Sexual health services - Contraception (prescribed functions)’.

It is at the discretion of local authorities to decide how much of the public health grant they receive that they allocate to different local priorities, based on local needs.