Will you work with organisations, workplaces and businesses in London to encourage them to provide free sanitary products in toilets to make this the norm across London?

No-one should have to go without basic hygiene products because they can’t afford them. Several London boroughs are leading excellent work to promote universal access to free sanitary products. I am aware of a number of boroughs adopting efforts to extend the provision of free products in public spaces, through pilots like the ‘P-Card’ scheme trialled in Lambeth, Southwark, Hackney and Barking and Dagenham, as well as the great work in Scotland where local authorities have a duty to provide universal access to period products.

I welcome the fact that many hygiene products no longer have VAT charged on them. And I will continue to support efforts to extend the provision of free period products in public spaces wherever I can. For example, Mopac will continue to work with the Metropolitan Police Service’s detention unit to ensure all detainees are offered hygiene products whilst in custody.