Question follow-through · 43139
Gender Dysphoria: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that children are not prescribed cross-sex hormones by private medical providers.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 24 Apr 2025 · 23 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
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that children are not prescribed cross-sex hormones by private medical providers.
3 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Apr 2025
Answer published
Children’s safety must always come first. That is why the Government and the National Health Service in England are implementing the recommendations of the Cass Review, in full.In her review, Dr Cass recommended “extreme caution” when prescribing cross-se...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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