Chancellor Philip Hammond announced in the 2016 Autumn Statement that the 2017/18 Tampon Tax Fund would open for applications in December 2016 to support women's charities, including those running programmes that tackle violence against women and girls.
The fund was announced in the 2015 Spending Review by his predecessor George Osborne, who committed £15m annually for women and girls' charities through VAT on women's sanitary products over the next five years.
The government made an "initial donation" of £5m to support organisations in November 2015. Osborne then allocated £12m for women and girls projects in the March 2016 Budget and Hammond announced the final £3m in November for Comic Relief (see box).
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