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Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has obtained legal advice on whether putting minors on puberty blockers constitutes a breach of child-safeguarding duties.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
26 Nov 2025
Answer
3 Dec 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has obtained legal advice on whether putting minors on puberty blockers constitutes a breach of child-safeguarding duties.

  2. 26 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 3 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    Children’s healthcare must always be evidence-led. That’s why we are following expert, independent advice from the Cass Review to implement a package of research to find out how the National Health Service can best support children and young people with g...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Department of Health and Social Care: Mental Health

25 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff in their Department have been on mental health leave for six months or more; and for what reason.

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Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Children

26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients aged under 18 have been prescribed GnRH analogue puberty blockers through the NHS in each year since 2010.

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Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Children

26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the total annual NHS expenditure on GnRH analogue puberty blockers for under-18s in each financial year since 2010.

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Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Children

26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what aggregated safety data, including adverse-event summaries, the MHRA has recorded relating to the use of puberty blockers in under-18s since 2010; and whether the Department has been informed o

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Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Children

26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any NHS regional gender hubs have prescribed puberty blockers to patients under 18 since the publication of the Cass Review.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gender Dysphoria: Prescriptions

26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what instructions his Department issued to NHS regional gender hubs on prescribing restrictions.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Disclosure of Information

26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Department holds complete archived referral, assessment, prescribing, and safeguarding data from the former Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service; and whether the Department wil

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Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Children

26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England or NHSBSA have identified any gaps or inconsistencies in national prescribing or outcomes data relating to puberty blockers in under-18s.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Gender Dysphoria

26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what evidence NICE has identified as the basis for its clinical assessment of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria; and whether NICE has undertaken (a) scoping and (b) evaluation exercises since 2

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NHS England: Expenditure

26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department reviews NHS England expenditure reports relating to the prescribing of puberty blockers for children; and whether (a) financial oversight and (b) risk assessments have been c

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Department of Health and Social Care: Subscriptions

2 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for the total spend on (i) LinkedIn membership fees (ii) other subscriptions by his Department in the last financial year.

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General Practitioners: Great Yarmouth

9 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of GPs in Great Yarmouth constituency.