"how much his Department gave to the Belfast Brook Advisory Centre in each year since its opening; and what the rates of sexually transmitted infections were in Northern Ireland in each year over the same period."The answer said that figures were only available from 1997.
Funding for Brook from Health and Social Services Boards (in £ sterling)
1997-98 - 52,702In addition, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has provided one-off funding to the organisation as follows: (in £ sterling)
1998-99 - 52,596
1999-2000 - 62,786
2000-01 - 83,356
2001-02 - 75,112
2002-03 - 79,347
2003-04 - 88,961
2004-05 - 107,469
2005-06 - 107,831
1997-98 - nilNow all that safe sex funding should have some sort of an outcome. Here are the rates of new treatment episodes of sexually transmitted infections:
1998-99 - 1,875
1999-2000 - 10,000
2000-01 - 6,450
2001-02 - 9,000
2002-03 - 4,000
2003-04 - nil
2004-05 - nil
2005-06 - nil
1995 - 2,076Source Hansard . Hat tip to SPUC Parliamentary Answers page.
1996 - figures not complete
1997 - figures not complete
1998 - 2,650
1999 - 3,118
2000 - 3,504
2001 - 3,494
2002 - 3,741
2003 - 3,873
2004 - 3,930
2005 - 4,393
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Interesting figures Fr Tim - but not at all surprising.
Why does the Government spend £zillions on reports, commissions, surveys etc... into these issues and then not act on what even a mathematical-simpleton like me can deduce as being from the school of the 'bleeding obvious'.
SAFE SEX FUNDING AND ALL THE PROPAGANDA SIMPLY DOES NOT WORK - NOT A JOT, NEVER HAS AND NEVER WILL.
Where are their experts in analysing these facts and figures. Do they have GCSE's in maths and common sense?? Oh, they're all paid-up members of IPPF.
These are the 'spokes-people' that are routinely 'wheeled out' from some sort of Government Agency closet at the appropriate times, their batteries switched on so they can mutter their age-old media anthem 'We need MORE sex-education, squawk, we need more sex-information, squawk, we need more condoms, squawk, we need to etc.....' you get my point.
Also I can't get my head around the thinking behind 'safe-sex'. If it isn't 'safe' in the first place why do it???? And why on earth should you want to 'protect' yourself against someone you are about to have sex with???? If you want to be really safe get someone else to do it for you!!!! And using a condom thinking it will protect you from HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Gonnorhea, Syphyllis, NSU, Chlamydia, Genital Warts, Herpes etc... etc.... is like thinking that wearing a crash helmet will save your life in a head-on collision with a missile.
10%, yes ONE in TEN uses of a condom FAIL!!! By the manufacturers own admission, for all sorts of reasons. Would you fly an airline that advertised itself by stating that one in ten of their planes routinely fell out of the sky???
This is goofy stuff!
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