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1231885

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2020
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	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.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	86064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2020 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> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 86065 86753 question first answered 11/09/2020 08:18:33 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1231886

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2020
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to continue the work of the Period Poverty Taskforce; and when future plans for that taskforce are planned to be announced.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	86065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2020 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> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 86064 86753 question first answered 11/09/2020 08:18:33 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion