I used to go to Family Planning and it was free for under 22s. I didn't get the ECP a lot though, just once for a broken condom soon after DH and I got together, and once when some horrible army guy (who I didn't know, and about a year before I met DH) decided that he was so important he could take what he wanted from whoever he wanted whether they wanted to or not

bast*rd...
Anyway, I agree it's a good point that people could just use the ECP as contraception if it were freely available. Some guy at my old workplace claimed he kept boxes of ECP in his bedside drawer

not sure if that was true or he was just trying to look "cool" but gez some people are creeps