Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

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.

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.