Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure young people have access to high quality reproductive healthcare, including the full range of contraceptive methods.

The Women’s Health Strategy set out a system-wide approach to women’s reproductive health which supports individual choice through the development of local pathways to improve access to services, such as women’s health hubs. The Strategy encourages local commissioners and providers to consider adopting these models of care. We have commissioned the National Institute for Health and Care Research-funded Birmingham, RAND Europe and Cambridge Rapid Evaluation Centre to undertake a scope for an evaluation of existing women’s health hubs. This is expected to conclude in early 2023.We will set out further plans to improve sexual and reproductive health in England in due course.