Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to mitigate the effect of covid-19 on levels of period poverty.

The Government Equalities Office has responsibility for the period poverty taskforce. The Department, along with other Government departments, is committed to tackling period poverty. To support this, NHS England announced in March 2019 that it will offer period products to every hospital patient who needs them, this includes those suffering from COVID-19.