Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Publications
2026-07-07 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · 16916 · Official question
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make it her policy to reference “sex” rather than “gender” in future departmental publications.
Answer
The Department will continue to use the word 'gender' when it is appropriate to do so, as the Hon Member himself has done ever since arriving in Parliament. Indeed, looking back at his past contributions to oral debates, I was struck by the number of issu...