HL Deb 23 October 1997 vol 582 c215WA
Lord Braine of Wheatley

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will make funding to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) dependent on these agencies not supporting or participating in the management of programmes of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilisation.

Lord Whitty

All funding from the Department for International Development for reproductive health is contingent on respect for the principles upheld at the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development, including the principle of informed free choice in family planning programmes. UNFPA and IPPF neither engage in nor condone coercive family planning practices. Both are at the forefront of international efforts to encourage observance of the standards of family planning agreed at Cairo.