Health written question – answered at on 13 November 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding his Department has allocated to the sexual health sector in each of the last five years.
Funding for local sexual health services forms part of the general allocations made by the Department to primary care trusts and is not identified separately. However, estimated gross spend on HIV, including expenditure by primary care trusts, is separately identified and set out in the following table.
£ million | |
2007-08 | 543 |
2008-09 | 654 |
2009-10 | 763 |
2010-11 | 886 |
The Department provided additional funding for contraception through the Improving Access to Contraception Fund. This programme ran from 2008-09 to 2010-11, and funds were distributed via strategic health authorities. The total amount distributed as part of this programme was £33,062,000.
Details of other funding provided centrally by the Department is in the following table.
£000 | |||||
Organisation | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 |
Terrence Higgins Trust | 2,250 | 2,250 | 2,400 | 2,400 | 2,400 |
Brook | 104 | 100 | 260 | 329 | 228 |
Family Planning Association | 1,150 | 1,149 | 1,329 | 1,376 | 1,380 |
African HIV Policy Network | 760 | 850 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
Black Health Agency | 150 | 150 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NAM Publications | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 0 |
British HIV Association | 40 | 40 | 40 | 30 | 0 |
Further expenditure on contracts and grants may have been made by the Department but this could be provided only at disproportionate cost as spending on the sexual health sector is not separately identified in the Department's financial systems.
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