Pupils: Period Poverty

(asked on 28th March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will issue schools with sanitary products for children who may otherwise be unable to afford them.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 19th April 2017

As I indicated in my answer to question 68295 on 27 March, schools have discretion over how they use their funding and if they wish to make these products available they are free to do so.

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