Question follow-through · 21656
Menopause: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress her Department's appointed menopause champion has made.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress her Department's appointed menopause champion has made.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government’s Menopause Employment Ambassador Mariella Frostrup has been working with policy officials to develop an action plan for her term of engagement. She has also spoken with government departments to promote and champion the role of women in th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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