§ Viscount INGLEBYasked Her Majesty's Government:
What was the cost to the Health Education Council in 1973–74 and 1974–75 (or the last two years for which statistics are available) of advertisements in the national Press and elsewhere advising the public to seek information from the Family Planning Association.
§ Lord WELLS-PESTELLThe Health Education Council has not referred to the Family Planning Association in any of its advertising for which costs were incurred during the last three years. It does however refer to the Family Planning Association as one of several sources of advice in two of its leaflets. In the last two financial years (1973–74 and 1974–75) the cost of these leaflets excluding distribution was: 1973–74—£12,219; 1974–75— £820 out of a total expenditure on sex education of £313,254 and £18,649 respectively. The Council's advertising in these years did and still does refer people to their general practitioner or to their "local family planning clinic "or advises them to" look under ' family planning ' in the telephone directory or yellow pages ".