PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Gender Dysphoria: Children (21 October 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department had discussions with the NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board on the (a) planned puberty supressing hormone study and (b) proposals to consider the benefits of puberty blocking treatments in children.

Asked by:
Nick Timothy (Conservative)

The National Children and Young People’s Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board oversees a joint NHS England and National Institute of Health and Care Research programme of research underpinning the redesign and ongoing development of specialised gender services. This includes the planned study into the potential benefits and harms of puberty suppressing hormones as a treatment option for children and young people with gender incongruence. The board has been established, and is run, by NHS England. As such, ministers do not have a role in determining its membership. The Department is represented on the board.

Answered by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
29 October 2024