§ Baroness ELLESasked Her Majesty's Government:
What public money has been granted or loaned between January 1973 and January 1976 to the following organisations: (a) Family Planning Association; (b) Grapevine; (c) International Planned Parenthood Federation; and (d) Population Countdown.
§ Lord WELLS-PESTELLThe information is as follows: Between 1st January 1973 and 31st March 1974 grants totalling approximately £100,000 were made by the Department of Health and Social Security to the Family Planning Association (FPA) towards the cost of family planning training for health services staff. A further grant of approximately £30,000 was made in 1973 and 1974 to the Association for the provision1220WA of comprehensive family planning services in the towns of Runcorn and Coalville for an experimental period in order to help define the role in family planning for each part of the health service from April 1974. Small grants and subscriptions are paid to the FPA by some individual local and health authorities, but information about them is not recorded centrally. Apart from the above payments, public money provided for the FPA has been to meet the actual cost of specified services and not as part of a grant or loan. Included in these specified services are clinic and training services provided under contract on an agency basis, until their take-over by the reorganised NHS is completed this year and information services provided by the FPA (but not those provided by FP Sales Limited) for staff and public until the future arrangements for them have been determined in the light of current discussions with Health Authorities, the Health Education Council and the FPA. Also included are the costs until 31st December 1976 of courses in sex education for teachers, health educators and community workers in co-ordinating youth work. Any over or under-payments in respect of these various specified services are adjusted.
No funds were provided for Grapevine by Government Departments. I understand that some local authorities and a health authority in whose areas Grapevine operates have contributed approximately £4,000 towards its costs in 1975. I am advised that during the period the Ministry of Overseas Development made grants-in-aid totalling £2.5 million to the International Planned Parenthood Federation specifically for work in developing countries. So far as I am aware, no public money has been granted or loaned to Population Countdown.