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...