The Government set the national strategy a target of reducing the numberof conceptions by 15 per cent by 2004, ahead of halving them by2010.
However, the actual fall was 11.1 per cent among girls aged between 16and 18, to 41.5 conceptions per 1,000 girls. This represents a fall of1.4 per cent from the previous year, and it is the lowest teenagepregnancy rate since 1995.
Among 13- to 15-year-old girls, the conception rate was 7.5, compared tothe 1998 rate of 8.8, data from the Office for National Statisticsrevealed last week.
Jan Barlow, chief executive of Brook, said: "It's very disappointing inthe face of this good news that some media have chosen to be sonegative.
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