Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on the economy of women missing work due to heavy menstrual bleeding.

The Department has not made such an assessment.

Public Health England’s most recent study on the reproductive health of over 7,500 women in the United Kingdom found that menstrual issues (including heavy menstrual bleeding) were reported by half of women in all age groups and three quarters of women in the 16 to 24 age group. Reproductive symptoms often affected women’s ability to carry out their daily activities but symptoms were often concealed, particularly from work colleagues.

Further information is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reproductive-health-what-women-say