Scotland to spend N11.4bn on free sanitary products for women

The legislation would make products such as tampons and sanitary pads free for all women in Scotland, available at designated public places such as community centres, youth clubs and pharmacies.The Period Products Scotland Bill was proposed by Scottish lawmaker Monica Lennon, who first submitted a draft proposal in 2017.Lennon said “These are not luxury items.

A consultation document proposed modeling the scheme on the card-based system for free condoms, where users register for a free card or voucher to exchange for the products.Scotland’s Communities Secretary, Aileen Campbell, said, “We will continue our world-leading action promoting wider period dignity through a certification scheme to encourage organisations to provide free products.’’Sanitary products in the United Kingdom are currently taxed at 5 percent the so-called “tampon tax’’.

The government announced it would drop the tax in 2016, but this has not happened yet, the issue having been pushed to the sidelines during the Brexit process.

Some will steal this money in Nigeria

Bring this Down to Nigeria and they will corruption the money...

Now that's what you call governance! May God bless Scotland!

Condom is shared in my country.

Nigeria is spending on terrorist boko haram that has killed hundreds of thousand people. Useless, clueless Nigeria politicians. Thieves

These are countries that think and care about the citizenry. God needs to create a different Hell fire for everyone involved with governance in Nigeria...

Can’t imagine why condom (when sex is optional) is mostly free and subsidized while sanitary pad ( when period is not optional) is very expensive.

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And Nigeria is still tax this item

A good reason to abolish nassnigeria

Better people

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