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Population Control

Volume 201: debated on Monday 13 January 1992

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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the amounts of Overseas Development Administration grants to Population Services Family Planning Programme Ltd., Marie Stopes, for each of the last 10 years.

The list of ODA grants to Marie Stopes International is as follows:

YearsSize of grant
1981–8289,916
1982–8371,424
1983–8495,397
1984–850
1985–8611,265
1986–87162,460
1987–8899,739
1988–89194,699
1989–90520,520
1990–91605,265
These grants do not represent general donations, but are provided in support of specifically agreed projects in developing countries.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the types of oral and injectable contraceptives provided under the United Nations fund for population activities as part of its health and family planning programme for Ghana.

The UNFPA's programme of contraceptive supply to Ghana provides Microgynon and Micronovum—orals—and Depo-Provera—injectable.