Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the extent of disparities in access to contraception experienced by women from (a) ethnic minority backgrounds, (b) deprived socioeconomic backgrounds and (c) the LGBTQ+ community.
No specific assessment has been made. However, as part of the Women’s Health Strategy, we have committed to commissioning a national survey of women’s reproductive health every two years which will gather information on disparities in relation to contraception.