Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will undertake research on the demographic data his Department holds to make an assessment of the potential effect of (a) age and (b) deprivation on women accessing contraceptive services.

The Department is developing a Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategy, which we plan to publish in 2021. We will consider a range of data and evidence as part of the development of the Strategy, which will explore issues of health inequalities in accessing contraception services. We will also consider whether additional analysis of data or research is needed to help inform the Strategy as part of this process.