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(asked on 21st April 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has allocated to the Family Planning Association (a) directly and (b) through local authorities in each of the last five years.


This question was answered on 27th April 2017

The Department and Public Health England (PHE) have provided funding to a number of sexual health charities, including Brook and the Family Planning Association in the past five years through the Innovation, Excellence and Strategic Development fund. These contracts are for national HIV prevention, specialist sexual health information services and other nationally funded work. Total allocations are:

2012/13:

£3,215,362

2013/14:

£3,021,434

2014/15:

£3,119,318

2015/16:

£1,672,660

2016/17:

£1,758,120

In addition, PHE has run an HIV Prevention Innovation Fund for local voluntary sector organisations in 2015 (up to £500,000) and 2016 (up to £600,000) and are running another call in 2017.

Details of the 2015 and 2016 funds are publically available at:

https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2016/12/01/health-matters-a-look-at-the-hiv-prevention-innovation-fund/

with details on specific call available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/launch-of-innovative-hiv-prevention-fund

and:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-funding-for-local-hiv-prevention

Information on contracts local authorities hold with sexual health charities is not collected centrally.

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