HC Deb 27 February 2004 vol 418 c622W
Tim Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children aged between 11 and 15 years were admitted to hospital owing to alcohol-related problems in each of the last six years. [155637]

Miss Melanie Johnson

The information is shown in the following table.

emergency contraception, according to need. In addition, the Government has boosted these resources by providing an extra £1 million to help improve access to contraceptive services.

The table contains family planning expenditure figures for National Health Service trusts and PCTs for the last four financial years. However, around three quarters of contraceptive care is provided by general practitioners in primary care for which expenditure figures are not available.

£
Community based family planning
NHS Trust expenditure Primary Care Trust expenditure Total expenditure
1998–99 65.9 n/a 65.9
1999–2000 70.5 n/a 70.5
2000–01 74.2 1.2 75.4
2001–02 57.8 19.9 77.6
Note:
Figures rounded to one decimal place.
Sources:
Annual Financial Returns of NHS Trusts. 1998–99 to 2002–03.
Annual Financial Returns of Primary Care Trusts, 2000–01 to 2002–03.