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Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Children

Commons · Question 94868 · Tabled 26 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 16 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Rupert Lowe

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.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 16 Dec 2025

From 1 April 2024, NHS England adopted a new clinical commissioning policy that prevents the newly established Children and Young People's Gender Services from initiating prescriptions for gonadotrophin releasing hormone analogues for the purpose of puber...