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Gender Dysphoria: Prescriptions

Commons · Question 94869 · Tabled 26 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 16 Dec 2025

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Asked by Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what instructions his Department issued to NHS regional gender hubs on prescribing restrictions.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 16 Dec 2025

In March 2024, NHS England published its clinical policy on puberty suppressing hormones for children and young people who have gender incongruence and/or gender dysphoria.This set out that puberty supressing hormones are not available as a routine commis...