PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Period Poverty Task Force (22 October 2019)
Question Asked
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what progress the Government's period poverty task force has made in its objectives since it was established.
Asked by:
Janet Daby (Labour)
Asked by:
Janet Daby (Labour)
Answer
The cross-sectoral Period Poverty Taskforce launched on 23rd July 2019 and has established three workstreams: Access for All, Research & Evidence and Stigma & Education. The workstreams have met twice and begun to identify: access barriers and the groups that are most affected by them; a programme of work to tackle stigma and shame surrounding menstruation; and research priorities to improve the evidence surrounding period poverty and menstrual stigma in the UK.
Answered by:
Victoria Atkins (Conservative)
29 October 2019
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