Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what financial support they are planning to provide for family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Sierra Leone over the next five years.

DFID is working with the Government of Sierra Leone, NGOs and the UN to tackle the high levels of maternal mortality and teenage pregnancy in Sierra Leone. This is a top priority of our £150million Saving Lives Programme which, over the next five years, aims to save the lives of 2,000 women and provide family planning for more than 134,000 women and girls. Activities include upgrading obstetric facilities, training nurses and midwives, developing a teenage pregnancy reduction strategy and providing essential life-saving drugs. We are also setting up adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health services; and working with communities to increase the use of family planning services.