evidence: Previous government initiatives and socio-economic factors appear to have influenced decreasing conception rates in the last two decades. In 2018, the government published the Teenage pregnancy prevention framework guidance, which aims to prevent unplanned pregnancy and promote healthy relationships among young people in England. This is driven by many factors, such as the UK's relatively high teenage birth rates, as compared with the rest of Europe, and health consequences for adolescent pregnancies. [...] Across all English regions, the North East had the lowest overall conception rate for women of all ages (15 to 44 years), it also had the highest conception rate for women aged under 18 years. The North East has consistently had the highest under-18 conception rate of all the English regions since 2003. [...] Provisional quarterly statistics on the number of conceptions to women aged under 18 years by region and other local authority area within England and Wales.