Sanitary products
Dear Heriot-Watt University,
How much per year going back three years has been spent supplying sanitary products to staff members?
Yours faithfully,
John Brown
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Dear Mr Brown
Thank you for your information request dated the 25^th February 2020
regarding sanitary products. Your request has been handled under the
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Free sanitary products are not currently provided for staff, however, free
sanitary products are provided for our students. We note that we received
£40,000 funding for the provision of sanitary products for students from
the Scottish Government in 2018/19.
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St Andrews,
Fife KY16 9DS
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