Question follow-through · 24497
Hormone Replacement Therapy: Transgender People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to hormone replacement therapy prescriptions through GPs for trans patients; and what steps he is taking to support trans patients' acce
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to hormone replacement therapy prescriptions through GPs for trans patients; and what steps he is taking to support trans patients' acce
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2025
Answer published
NHS England is currently carrying out a review of adult gender services which will look at how to overcome the challenges that some individuals face in accessing a timely prescription.NHS England has more than doubled investment in gender dysphoria servic...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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