Question follow-through · 772
Period Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to tackle period poverty.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 18 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 25 Jul 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
18 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to tackle period poverty.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jul 2024
Answer published
Since 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 ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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