Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent progress has been made on abolishing VAT on sanitary products.

The Government has continued to press at EU level for the flexibility to apply a zero rate of VAT to women’s sanitary products so that this can be introduced in the UK at the earliest opportunity.

The European Commission has now brought forward a legislative proposal, which is under discussion in the EU and, if it is agreed by Member States, would give the UK that flexibility.