Question follow-through · 30552
Gender
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether her Department plans to issue updated guidance to service providers on rights under the Equality Act 2010 to lawfully exclude biological males from single-sex spaces.
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether her Department plans to issue updated guidance to service providers on rights under the Equality Act 2010 to lawfully exclude biological males from single-sex spaces.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Feb 2025
Answer published
It is vitally important that service providers understand the single-sex service exceptions in the Equality Act 2010 and feel confident using them. The Government has committed to ensuring that there is guidance in place which gives service providers assu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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