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registered interest false remove filter
date less than 2020-09-07more like thismore than 2020-09-07
answering body
Women and Equalities more like this
answering dept id 31 more like this
answering dept short name Women and Equalities more like this
answering dept sort name Women and Equalities more like this
hansard heading Period Poverty remove filter
house id 1 more like this
legislature
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pref label House of Commons remove filter
question text To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what progress the Government's period poverty taskforce has made in its objectives since (a) that taskforce was established and (b) the start of the Parliamentary session. more like this
tabling member constituency Rotherham more like this
tabling member printed
Sarah Champion more like this
uin 86064 more like this
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answer
is ministerial correction false more like this
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answer text <p>The Period Poverty Taskforce has begun a programme of work to tackle stigma and shame surrounding menstruation; established research priorities to improve the evidence surrounding period poverty and menstrual stigma in the UK and has begun to identify access barriers and the groups that are most affected by them. In addition to this, The Department for Education launched a new scheme which makes free period products available in state-funded primary schools, secondary schools and colleges in England, to ensure that menstruation does not present a barrier to young people’s learning.</p><p>The work of the Taskforce was paused on 20 March 2020 in light of COVID-19 to allow the GEO secretariat to be redeployed to respond to the pandemic, and to ensure that we were not asking businesses to volunteer resources at this difficult time. Further announcements on the plans and the work of the Taskforce will be made in due course.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Saffron Walden more like this
answering member printed Kemi Badenoch more like this
grouped question UIN
86065 more like this
86753 more like this
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less than 2020-09-11T08:18:33.803Zmore like thismore than 2020-09-11T08:18:33.803Z
answering member
4597
label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch more like this
tabling member
4267
label Biography information for Sarah Champion more like this