VoteClimate: Free Period Product Scheme for Schools - 15th December 2021

Free Period Product Scheme for Schools - 15th December 2021

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Free Period Product Scheme for Schools.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-12-15/debates/C6177844-B62E-486F-BC93-764B9B11A2FD/FreePeriodProductSchemeForSchools

16:17 The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (Will Quince)

The hon. Lady also rightly referenced the environment. We continually monitor the ways in which we can make our scheme and others like it more environmentally friendly, such as by setting a minimum order value based on the organisation’s budget—for an average secondary school, that is about £1,500—in order to limit deliveries and reduce traffic and all those things. Importantly, we continue to include a range of sustainable and environmentally friendly products for schools and colleges to select, as I think the hon. Lady would hope. Our supplier reports that, over the past few months—I suspect driven in part by COP26—orders for environmentally friendly products increased significantly in the weeks up to and after COP26.

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