| Heading: |
Prisoners: Transgender People |
| Question ID: |
1808285 |
| UIN: |
56555 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5297 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Rebecca Paul
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| Asking Member handle: |
Rebecca_SPaul
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@Rebecca_SPaul
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact transgender prison policies on the (a) safety, (b) dignity and (c) privacy of biologically female prisoners. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-10 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4056 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answer text: |
Prior to any placement, a risk assessment would be carried out by a multidisciplinary panel chaired by a specially trained senior prison manager, with senior staff from the HMPPS Womens Group including a psychologist. Assessments take account of all known... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |