PLMR worked to raise awareness about menopause and garner support from key political stakeholders across the political spectrum and securing significant speakers for events, such as to celebrate International Women’s Day.

This extensive stakeholder engagement programme has involved strategic meetings with influential MPs, including:

• Caroline Noakes MP, Chair of the Women’s and Equalities Committee
• Carolyn Harris MP, Chair of the APPG on Menopause
• Peter Dowd MP, Secretary of the APPG on Menopause
• Baroness Verma, Chair of UN Women National Committee UK and Vice-Chair of the Women and Enterprise APPG

Through these engagements, PLMR facilitated direct discussions on the topic and elicited responses from relevant Ministers including:

• Mims Davies MP, Minister for Social Mobility, Youth and Progression
• Kevin Hollinrake MP, Minister for Enterprise, Markets and Small Business

Our work also included engagement with former Ministers:

• Rt. Hon. Anne Milton, former Minister for Women and Equalities
• Maria Caulfield MP, former Minister for Patient Safety and Primary Care whose role at the time encompassed Women’s Health

Third-party engagement also included:

• Dame Lesley Regan, Women’s Health Ambassador for England
• Mary Bright, specialist policy adviser to Andy Briggs, the Government’s Business Champion for an Age Society
• Jane Gratton and Faye Busby, from the British Chamber of Commerce

PLMR also worked to facilitate conversations between the Adecco Group and the Labour Party and engaged extensively with the political and policy manager to the Rt Hon Angela Rayner (Deputy Leader, Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Shadow Secretary of State for the Future of Work) as well as the policy advisor to Anneliese Dodds (Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, Party Chair and Chair of Labour Policy Review).