Submitted on Saturday 23rd January 2021
Rejected on Thursday 11th February 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make Period products free.
I would like the U.K. government to make Period products (i.e. pads, tampons) free. The tampon tax has been abolished but Period products are still costly, especially for people struggling financially.
Period poverty is a problem in this country:10% of girls can't afford products, 15% struggle, 12% have had to use make-shift products and 14% borrow from friends because of affordability issues. Hundreds of thousands of homeless women also can't afford products. The pandemic has exacerbated this, with more people falling into poverty. Scotland can do it. So can we.
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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 might like to sign the following petition:
Fund free female sanitary products, such as sanitary towels and tampons
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/555551
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