HC Deb 27 July 1989 vol 157 cc921-2W
Mrs. Ann Winterton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he has any information concerning the numbers of children aged under 16 years who were given contraceptive drugs and devices by family planning clinics and the Brook Advisory Service in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

Mr. Freeman

The available information relates to the number of clients seen rather than to the outcome of the consultation. In 1987–88 15,600 young people aged under 16 were seen at community and hospital family planning clinics in England. This figure includes those seen by Brook centres providing services on an agency basis for health authorities.

Mrs. Ann Winterton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he has any information concerning the numbers north Derbyshire and neighbouring districts. Pork products were definitely implicated in at least 27 of the cases. The organism was identified in four people who died. Its contribution as a factor in their deaths forms part of the coroners' investigations, which are not yet complete. The outbreak has been fully investigated and appropriate action taken.