Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she or a representative of her Department plans to attend the She Decides conference in Brussels on 2 March 2017; what steps she is taking to ensure that women's access to sexual and reproductive health services is safeguarded; and if she will make a statement.

DFID will be represented at the She Decides conference by the Minister of State, Rory Stewart.

The UK is, and will remain, a global leader on family planning, women’s rights and sexual and reproductive health. Women should have the right to choose when to have children, and how many. This year, with UNFPA and the Gates Foundation, DFID will co-host a major follow up to the 2012 Family Planning Summit to accelerate global family planning efforts, so that we can get the world back on track to enable 120 million additional women and girls get the contraception they need.