§ Mr. StreeterTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development what proportion of her Department's health budget is paid to(a) IPPF, (b) UNFPA and (c) other population control agencies which provide abortion services as well as contraceptives. [93431]
§ Clare ShortThe Department for International Development (DFID) works with national governments, multilateral agencies and civil society groups in over 150 countries to enable more poor people to benefit from good quality reproductive health care, including voluntary family counselling and services; HIV/AIDS/STD prevention, treatment and care; essential obstetric care, including treatment for the consequences of unsafe abortion and, where legal, elective termination of pregnancy. Around 7.5 per cent. and 2.5 per cent. of DFID's 1998–99 health expenditure of £200 million was invested via UNFPA and IPPF respectively in order to enable poor people to exercise their basic right to reproductive choice and reproductive health.