Question follow-through · 91828
Young Offender Institutions: Transgender People
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria his Department uses to determine placement of transgender young people within the Children and Young People's Estate.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 17 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 20 Nov 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
17 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria his Department uses to determine placement of transgender young people within the Children and Young People's Estate.
20 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Nov 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 4 November 2025 to Question 85613.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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