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Puberty Suppressing Hormones |
| Question ID: |
1786077 |
| UIN: |
HL5911 |
| 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 ensure children are not privately prescribed cross-sex hormones in order to circumnavigate the ban on puberty blockers. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-26 |
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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: |
The safety of children and young people is an overriding priority for the Government, and that is why we introduced an indefinite ban on the sale and supply of puberty supressing hormones from the European Economic Area and private providers in the United... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |