Sexual health charity calls on all political parties to commit to reduce the UK’s teenage pregnancy rate.

The most recent teenage pregnancy statistics for England and Wales, just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), show that rates have continued to decrease, but the UK’s teenage birth rate remains one of the highest in western Europe.

The number of conceptions to women in England and Wales under 18 in the first three months of 2016 was 19.9 per every thousand women aged 15 to 17 (4,749 women in total).