HC Deb 08 December 1999 vol 340 c577W
11. Mr. Ottaway

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will make a statement on funding of population programmes. [100358]

Clare Short

We are spending £80 million through our own programmes on reproductive health care. This is a doubling of our programmes since 1994. We also spend £5.4 million through NGO's. Over the past 30 years we have moved from 9 per cent. to nearly 60 per cent. of couples having access to modern contraception. The International Community is committed to reaching 100 per cent. by 2015.

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