Submitted on Tuesday 27th October 2020
Rejected on Monday 9th November 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make period sanitary products free for people in the UK
Period poverty has always been an issue financially, globally. The pandemic not helping as many people have lost their jobs. Until recently the Welsh government believed that sanitary products were non essential items which is wrong. Make sanitary products free
500 million women and girls live in period poverty every month. Due to financial reasons they cannot afford sanitary products as they aren’t cheap and some people use more sanitary products than others. Some people cannot get an education or attend work as they cannot afford these ESSENTIAL ITEMS. Women and girls should not be punished for having a menstrual cycle, miss out on educational learning and opportunities and work. Women and girls suffer with pains without the stress of period poverty
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/555551
The UK Government would only be responsible for this in England, and implementing a similar policy in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland would be a matter for the devolved administrations.
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