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1460490

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Period Poverty Task Force
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Period Poverty Taskforce will restart its meetings; and if so, when.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL7974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Period poverty is an issue the government takes very seriously and has taken a number of steps to address the problem.</p><p>Since January 2020, a Department for Education scheme provides free period products in schools and 16-19 education institutions in England. Additionally, from 1 January 2021, the ‘tampon tax’ has been abolished - with a zero rate of VAT applying to all period products. Prior to the abolition of the tax, a Tampon Tax fund was in place to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on period products, to projects which improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls. A final round of £11.25 million in grant funding was awarded in November 2021 to distribute the VAT collected on period products in the final nine months of the 2020/21 financial year, before the tax ended.</p><p>As well as these steps, in 2019, NHS England announced that it would offer period products to every hospital patient who needs them and the Home Office changed the law to ensure that all people in custody are provided with health and hygiene products for free, to include period products.</p><p>In March 2020, in light of COVID-19, the work of the Period Poverty Taskforce was paused to free up resources to focus on the pandemic. Further announcements on the plans and the work of the Taskforce will be made in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL7975 HL7976 HL7977 HL7978 question first answered 28/04/2022 10:58:30 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1460491

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Period Poverty Task Force: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the £250,000 that was committed to help the Period Poverty Taskforce to address the issue of period poverty will still be made available.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL7975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Period poverty is an issue the government takes very seriously and has taken a number of steps to address the problem.</p><p>Since January 2020, a Department for Education scheme provides free period products in schools and 16-19 education institutions in England. Additionally, from 1 January 2021, the ‘tampon tax’ has been abolished - with a zero rate of VAT applying to all period products. Prior to the abolition of the tax, a Tampon Tax fund was in place to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on period products, to projects which improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls. A final round of £11.25 million in grant funding was awarded in November 2021 to distribute the VAT collected on period products in the final nine months of the 2020/21 financial year, before the tax ended.</p><p>As well as these steps, in 2019, NHS England announced that it would offer period products to every hospital patient who needs them and the Home Office changed the law to ensure that all people in custody are provided with health and hygiene products for free, to include period products.</p><p>In March 2020, in light of COVID-19, the work of the Period Poverty Taskforce was paused to free up resources to focus on the pandemic. Further announcements on the plans and the work of the Taskforce will be made in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL7974 HL7976 HL7977 HL7978 question first answered 28/04/2022 10:58:30 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1460492

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Period Poverty
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they remain committed to their target of ending period poverty and shame in the UK by 2025.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL7976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Period poverty is an issue the government takes very seriously and has taken a number of steps to address the problem.</p><p>Since January 2020, a Department for Education scheme provides free period products in schools and 16-19 education institutions in England. Additionally, from 1 January 2021, the ‘tampon tax’ has been abolished - with a zero rate of VAT applying to all period products. Prior to the abolition of the tax, a Tampon Tax fund was in place to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on period products, to projects which improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls. A final round of £11.25 million in grant funding was awarded in November 2021 to distribute the VAT collected on period products in the final nine months of the 2020/21 financial year, before the tax ended.</p><p>As well as these steps, in 2019, NHS England announced that it would offer period products to every hospital patient who needs them and the Home Office changed the law to ensure that all people in custody are provided with health and hygiene products for free, to include period products.</p><p>In March 2020, in light of COVID-19, the work of the Period Poverty Taskforce was paused to free up resources to focus on the pandemic. Further announcements on the plans and the work of the Taskforce will be made in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL7974 HL7975 HL7977 HL7978 question first answered 28/04/2022 10:58:30 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1460493

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Period Poverty
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to monitor the issues of period poverty and shame.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL7977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Period poverty is an issue the government takes very seriously and has taken a number of steps to address the problem.</p><p>Since January 2020, a Department for Education scheme provides free period products in schools and 16-19 education institutions in England. Additionally, from 1 January 2021, the ‘tampon tax’ has been abolished - with a zero rate of VAT applying to all period products. Prior to the abolition of the tax, a Tampon Tax fund was in place to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on period products, to projects which improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls. A final round of £11.25 million in grant funding was awarded in November 2021 to distribute the VAT collected on period products in the final nine months of the 2020/21 financial year, before the tax ended.</p><p>As well as these steps, in 2019, NHS England announced that it would offer period products to every hospital patient who needs them and the Home Office changed the law to ensure that all people in custody are provided with health and hygiene products for free, to include period products.</p><p>In March 2020, in light of COVID-19, the work of the Period Poverty Taskforce was paused to free up resources to focus on the pandemic. Further announcements on the plans and the work of the Taskforce will be made in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL7974 HL7975 HL7976 HL7978 question first answered 28/04/2022 10:58:30 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1460494

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Period Poverty
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what trends they have identified, if any, in period poverty and shame; and what steps they are taking to address any such trends.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL7978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Period poverty is an issue the government takes very seriously and has taken a number of steps to address the problem.</p><p>Since January 2020, a Department for Education scheme provides free period products in schools and 16-19 education institutions in England. Additionally, from 1 January 2021, the ‘tampon tax’ has been abolished - with a zero rate of VAT applying to all period products. Prior to the abolition of the tax, a Tampon Tax fund was in place to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on period products, to projects which improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls. A final round of £11.25 million in grant funding was awarded in November 2021 to distribute the VAT collected on period products in the final nine months of the 2020/21 financial year, before the tax ended.</p><p>As well as these steps, in 2019, NHS England announced that it would offer period products to every hospital patient who needs them and the Home Office changed the law to ensure that all people in custody are provided with health and hygiene products for free, to include period products.</p><p>In March 2020, in light of COVID-19, the work of the Period Poverty Taskforce was paused to free up resources to focus on the pandemic. Further announcements on the plans and the work of the Taskforce will be made in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL7974 HL7975 HL7976 HL7977 question first answered 28/04/2022 10:58:30 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1439948

registered interest
date	10/03/2022
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Transgender People: Equality
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will introduce legislation to implement reforms in England and Wales similar to those proposed in the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill to ensure the equal treatment of transgender people across Great Britain; and, if so, when.
tabling member printed	Lord Cashman
uin	HL6856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government held a public consultation on the Gender Recognition Act 2004 in 2018, which we responded to in 2020. We carefully considered the responses to the consultation and concluded that the balance struck in the legislation is correct. There are proper checks and balances in the system for people who want to change their legal sex and we have no intention of changing the current legislative requirements.</p><p>We are progressing in our commitment, announced at the same time in 2020, to make the gender recognition process more straightforward and accessible. That is why we have already reduced the fee to £5 and are digitising the application process to make it more accessible and easier to navigate. As the Minister for Equalities recently announced, we will also be removing, via a remedial order, the term ‘disorder’ from the definition of gender dysphoria in the 2004 Act.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 24/03/2022 12:40:34 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	4340 label Biography information for Lord Cashman

1437278

registered interest
date	01/03/2022
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Social Mobility
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what further steps they are taking to improve social mobility.
tabling member printed	Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
uin	HL6539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2022 answer text <p>This Government believes the circumstances of one's birth should not determine life outcomes.</p><p>We recently published our landmark Levelling Up White Paper, which sets out our ambitious plans to spread opportunity more equally across the UK.</p><p>The Social Mobility Commission is important to our levelling up agenda. We have bolstered the work of the Commission by recruiting a new Chair and Deputy Chair and giving the Commission more leverage to influence other government departments. We are also running a competition for new Commissioners and the new board is expected to be in place by Spring 2022.</p><p>To support our levelling up agenda, the Minister for Women and Equalities announced the Equality Data Programme to ensure that geographic and socio-economic inequality is considered, alongside other factors, when identifying barriers to opportunity.</p><p>We will use evidence from the Equality Data Programme and Social Mobility Commission to inform and support the development of policy across the Government to level up opportunities across the UK.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 10/03/2022 11:50:31 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown

1436076

registered interest
date	25/02/2022
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Gender Recognition Act 2004
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to change the wording of the Gender Recognition Act 2004; and if so, what changes they intend to make.
tabling member printed	Baroness Noakes
uin	HL6452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government held a public consultation on the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2004 in 2018, to which we responded in 2020. We carefully considered the responses to the consultation and concluded that the balance struck in the legislation is correct. There are proper checks and balances in the system for people who want to change their legal sex and we have no intention of altering the requirements of the Gender Recognition Act 2004.</p><p>A judicial review in Northern Ireland last year found that the use of the term “disorder” within the definition of gender dysphoria (Section 25(1) of the GRA) was incompatible with the applicant’s rights under the European Convention on Human Rights as reflected in the Human Rights Act 1998. The High Court held that the use of the term was outdated and unjustified. The Government will be introducing a Remedial Order to remove the term ‘disorder’ in due course.</p><p>More widely, we are progressing in our commitments to make the gender recognition process more straightforward and accessible. That is why we have already reduced the fee to £5 and are digitising the application process to make it more accessible and easier to navigate.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 10/03/2022 11:49:42 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	2554 label Biography information for Baroness Noakes

1420135

registered interest
date	07/02/2022
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Disability Unit and Government Equalities Office
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government to provide the (1) budget, and (2) staffing at each grade, for the (a) Disability Unit, and (b) Government Equalities Office.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL6021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2022 answer text <p>From 1st April 2021, the Equality Hub received a budget settlement covering all units - the Government Equalities Office, the Disability Unit, the Race Disparity Unit and the Social Mobility Commission. This settlement for the 2021/22 financial year was £18.6m. Within this, the Government Equalities Office budget for 2021/22 as of January 2022 is £9.5m and the Disability Unit budget is £3.6m.</p><p>With regards to staffing, the latest staffing allocation - on a full-time equivalent basis - is shown in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>SCS2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>SCS1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>G6</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>G7</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>SEO</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>HEO</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>EO</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>GEO</strong></p></td><td><p>0.25</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>28.3</p></td><td><p>27.4</p></td><td><p>28.4</p></td><td><p>10.5</p></td><td><p>108.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>DU</strong></p></td><td><p>0.25</p></td><td><p>1.2</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>9.6</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>22.65</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Budgets and staffing allocations for future years are currently being determined and we will provide the usual update to the Women and Equalities Committee in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 21/02/2022 17:28:38 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1401603

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Equality Act 2010
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to enact section 106 of the Equality Act 2010.
tabling member printed	Baroness Gale
uin	HL5232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government keeps section 106 of the Equality Act 2010 under review but remains of the view that political parties should lead the way in increasing diverse electoral representation through their own approaches to the selection of candidates.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 19/01/2022 12:38:51 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	2503 label Biography information for Baroness Gale