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Antenatal Results and Choices: Finance

Question for Department of Health

UIN HL3061, tabled on 7 November 2016

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total amount of public money given to Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC) or its precursor organisation, Support After Termination for Abnormality, in each of the last 10 years; and for what purposes the money was given.

Answered on

21 November 2016

The Department has made a number of payments to Antenatal Results and Choices over a period spanning from 2009-10 to 2012-13. The Department’s financial systems only allow full financial year reporting of expenditure from 2009-10 onwards.

The payments made by financial year are as follows:

Financial Year

Payment

Purpose

2009-10

£145.25

Reimbursement for meeting attendance

2010-11

£15,000.00

Grant to improve Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) antenatal support

2011-12

£5,000.00

Grant to improve BME antenatal support

2012-13

£14,000.00

Grant to improve care following a first trimester pre-natal diagnosis

2012-13

£5,450.00

Grant to improve care following a first trimester pre-natal diagnosis

Total

£39,585.25