Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered on 15th March 2023.
Toby Perkins
Shadow Minister (Education)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of women who (a) have reached menopause and (b) are in perimenopause as of 9 March 2023.
Maria Caulfield
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Based on the Office for National Statistics population estimates, approximately 400,000 women in the United Kingdom reach menopause each year. We do not have an estimate for the number of women who are in perimenopause as of 9 March 2023.
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