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Written Question
Gender Dysphoria: Children
Wednesday 1st May 2024

Asked by: Royston Smith (Conservative - Southampton, Itchen)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2024 to Question 20081 on Gender Dysphoria: Children, what information her Department holds on the number of children of each biological sex that were prescribed puberty blockers for treatment of gender dysphoria each year since 2010.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The Department does not hold information on the number of children of each biological sex who were prescribed puberty blockers for treatment of gender dysphoria.


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