Question follow-through · 41234
Passports: Gender Recognition
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an individual without a Gender Recognition Certificate can change the sex displayed on their passport to be different from their sex recorded at birth.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an individual without a Gender Recognition Certificate can change the sex displayed on their passport to be different from their sex recorded at birth.
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2025
Answer published
HM Passport’s Office policy can be found at Gender recognition policy - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The policy was last updated under the previous government in April 2024, and has not been changed since.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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