Rejected petition Give teenage girls free sanitary products

More than 137,700 girls had to stay off school because they couldn’t afford sanitary products last year. No girl should have to miss out on education because they couldn’t afford something so basic as pads.

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Why was this petition rejected?

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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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/223108

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Date submitted 8 October 2018
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