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Gender Dysphoria: Children and Young People |
| Question ID: |
1786076 |
| UIN: |
HL5910 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1551 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Jackson of Peterborough
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Lord Jackson of Peterborough
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to safeguard neurodivergent and vulnerable children and young adults from receiving medically unnecessary surgeries as part of gender-affirming care interventions. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-26 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
347 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answer text: |
NHS England commissions gender services for children and young people in line with its interim service specification for children and young people with gender incongruence. These services do not make referrals for surgical interventions.Children and young... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |