Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 17 May (HL7492), whether providers of contraceptive services receive financial benefits for prescribing particular types and methods of contraception.
Providers of contraceptive services receive funding from commissioners for the provision of services. It is for commissioners to decide whether to put incentive schemes in place to encourage the prescribing of particular contraceptive products.