Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 772
Period Poverty
Tabled: 18 July 2024
Answered: 25 July 2024
Question
Sonia Kumar
Labour — Dudley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to tackle period poverty.
Answer
Karin SmythSince 2019 the National Health Service has made free period products available to every hospital patient who needs them, including long-term in-patients. The Department for Education’s period product scheme provides access to free period products for all ...
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