§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy to support strongly paragraphs 7.42 and 7.43 on adolescent sexual and reproductive health in the draft final document for the international conference on population and development in Cairo.
§ Mr. BaldryWe have supported statements in the document which calls for efforts to meet the special needs of young people. We shall continue to do so in preparations for the conference with our EU partners. We recognise that for some delegations this is a difficult issue. However, it is important to ensure that all young people are able to get the information and services they need to keep healthy, and that negotiations continue, in Cairo, to find acceptable language in support of this goal.
§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy to seek to safeguard the rights of adolescents to privacy, confidentiality, informed consent and respect at the United Nations conference on population and development in Cairo.
§ Mr. BaldryI refer the hon. Member to my answer concerning meeting the needs of young people. We support statements that call for adolescents to be able to access reproductive health information and services provided in a responsible and culturally sensitive fashion, and with due regard to general principles of health care practice—including privacy, confidentiality, informed consent and, of course, respect.