Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2020 to Question 58066 on Contraceptives, what data his Department holds on prescribing rates for long-acting reversible contraception for each year since 2013-14.

NHS Digital hold the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services data. The data primarily covers contraceptive activity taking place at dedicated SRH services in England, as recorded in the sexual and reproductive activity dataset (SHRAD). The primary focus of the SHRAD collection is contraception.

The data on prescribing rates for long-acting reversible contraception for each year since 2013-14 are published in ‘NHS Digital’s sexual and reproductive health services (contraception) – England: data tables’. Information on women using sexual and reproductive health services for contraception, by main method of contraception and age and contraceptive prescriptions dispensed in the community is attached.