Information, resources and Parliamentary activity:

What is a Westminster Hall debate?

Westminster Hall debates give MPs an opportunity to raise local or national issues and receive a response from a government minister. 

How Parliament works: Westminster Hall debates.

The debates would normally take place in the Grand Committee Room – just off Parliament’s historic Westminster Hall - but have been temporarily relocated due to Coronavirus restrictions since 14 January. They now take place in the more modern Boothroyd Room in Portcullis House.

The temporary move will allow up to 20 MPs to participate in any one debate physically and virtually combined. See our news story for further information: Westminster Hall debates: MPs to participate virtually and in person.

House of Commons Library research briefings

• Support for people experiencing menopausal symptoms (25 May 2021)
• World Menopause Day (17 October 2018)

Debates

House of Commons

• NHS Menopause Services (13 February 2019)
• Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer (25 September 2019)
• World Menopause Day (18 October 2018)

House of Lords

• Contraceptives and Hormone Replacement Therapy Drugs (18 March 2020)

MPs' references to menopause during debates:

• Paula Sherriff MP: Endometriosis Workplace Support (29 October 2019)
• Rachel Maclean MP: Health (14 May 2019)
• Rachel Maclean MP: Relationships and Sex Education (25 February 2019)  

Oral questions

• Munira Wilson MP: Health and Social Care (28 January 2020)
• Penny Mordaunt MP: Women and Equalities (7 February 2019)
• Rachel Maclean MP: Prime Minister’s Questions (30 January 2019)
• Liz McInnes MP: Menopause Training and Information in the Workplace (28 June 2018)

Written questions

• Robert Halfon MP: Menopause (13 May 2021)
• Holly Mumby-Croft: Hormone Replacement Therapy: Prescriptions (28 August 2020)
• Alex Norris MP: Employment: Menopause (26 February 2020)
• Harriet Harman MP: Menopause (10 February 2020)

Statements

• Nadine Dorries MP (The Minister for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health) Women’s Health Strategy (8 March 2021)

Committees

• Women and Equalities Committee
• Health and Social Care Committee

Women's Health Strategy consultation:

The Government are seeking your views to help inform the development of their Women’s Health Strategy. Find out more and submit your response: Women's Health Strategy: Call for Evidence.

Deadline: 13 June 2021.

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