HC Deb 19 September 2003 vol 410 cc1014-5W
Richard Ottaway

To ask the Minister of State, Department for International Development pursuant to his reply of 16 July 2003,Official Report, column 332W, what percentage of the money spent on reproductive health services, is being spent on (a) HIV/AIDS programmes and (b) family planning; and in which countries. [130514]

Hilary Benn

The Department for International Development spent £31 million in 2002–03 on activities within the Sector-Wide Approaches (SWAPS) that had support for reproductive health services as one of their objectives (the reply of 16 July 2003,Official Report, column 332W refers).

The breakdown is as follows:

Country Title Expenditure 2002–03 (£)
Ghana Health Grant 3,500,000
Malawi Health SWAP 163,126
Mozambique Essential Medicines 4,700,000
Tanzania Health Sector Programme 9,489,992
Zambia Health SWAP 7,621,863
Bangladesh SHAPLA1 WB Time Slicing 5,000,000
Cambodia Health Sector Support 226,835
Total 30,701,816
1 Support for Health and Population for the Less Advanced Programme: World Bank Time Slicing.

DFID support for reproductive health is wide ranging. It covers HIV/AIDS programmes, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections and maternal and adolescent health. Reproductive health also encompasses the services for family planning, contraception and childbearing that make an important contribution to increasing women's choice and opportunity and to preventing unplanned or unwanted pregnancy. Family planning services also provide an important opportunity to improve sexual health and in particular to increase women's access to methods that help prevent HIV infection. The £31 million expenditure for 2003–03 cannot therefore be apportioned between HIV/AIDS and Family Planning, as many reproductive health programmes and projects contribute to both objectives (for example through the provision of information on family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention or the provision of condoms).

The figures above include only the DFID contributions to SWAPS. If our other expenditure on Reproductive Health and HIV,'AIDS (for example through multilateral organisations) were included the amounts would be considerably higher.