HC Deb 27 April 1993 vol 223 cc359-60W
Mr. Alton

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what details are given by the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the United Nations Population Fund, in submitting grant applications, including budgets, to his Department, of the particular purposes to which grants from Her Majesty's Government would be put;

(2) what conditions are placed by Her Majesty's Government on sums given to the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the United Nations Population Fund for population control purposes.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

[holding answers 26 April 1993]: We make annual contributions to IPPF and UNFPA in support of their world-wide activities. Our aid programme gives high priority to enabling women and men to have better access to contraceptive services and reproductive health care. IPPF and UNFPA share these goals. The policies, programmes and budgets of IPPF and UNFPA are examined annually by ODA and other donor governments at the IPPF donors meeting and UNFPA governing council respectively.

Mr. Alton

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he has received from (a) the International Planned Parenthood Federation, (b) the United Nations Population Fund and (c) Her Majesty's Government's diplomatic missions in China regarding the use of coercive methods of population control in Tibet.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

[holding answer 26 April 1993]: We have received no such information from IPPF or UNFPA. We receive regular reports from our diplomatic missions in China on a number of issues of concern, including the situation in Tibet.

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