However, the government has confirmed that it is still planning to award £250,000 of tampon tax money to Life, an anti-abortion organisation. When details of this grant emerged earlier this year, it was widely and rightly criticised. Labour MP Paula Sherriff said at the time: "It will seem bitterly ironic to many women if we are taxed for our biology, only for the government to hand over that money to organisations that don't even believe we should have control over our own bodies."