Southend West Conservative MP David Amess has further questioned the role of Marie Stopes International in delivering NHS reproductive health services.
Mr Amess originally questioned Culture Minister Ed Vaizey over adverts for Marie Stopes International on Channel 4. His question revealed that there had been over 600 complaints from the public about the ad for the not-for-profit reproductive health organisation.
Mr Amess, a long time anti-abortion campaigner, asked the Health Secretary in a written question on Tuesday: “what payments his Department has made to Marie Stopes International for abortion, family planning and other reproductive health services in the last 12 months,” and “how much he plans to allocate to Marie Stopes International for those purposes in each of the next three years.”
Mr Amess received a written reply from Anne Milton, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health.
Ms Milton wrote: “No direct payments have been made by the Department to Marie Stopes International in the past 12 months and no direct funding to this organisation is planned in this or future financial years.
“The national health service funds abortions undertaken by MSI under contract to individual primary care trusts.
“However, information on these contracts is commercially sensitive and not collected centrally.”
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