To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the estimated expenditure on community contraceptive services for women (a) aged under 20 years and (b) aged 20 years and over was in (i) England and (ii) each primary care trust area in the latest period for which figures are available. (295887)

This information is not held centrally.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many women in each primary care trust area began using each type of primary method of contraception following their first visit to a community contraceptive services facility in each year since 1997-98. (295892)

The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in table 15 of statistical bulletin NHS “Contraceptive Services, England 2008-09”. Tables 5A to 5J of this document also contain data by strategic health authority. The document has been placed in the Library.