Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for transgender people to be seen at NHS gender clinics.

Following significant increased demand for National Health Service gender services, three new clinics are being established in London, Merseyside and Cheshire, and Manchester working to a new service specification. The first of these clinics, London, began seeing patients in July 2020. The clinics will be evaluated over a period of up to three years and planning is underway to establish similar services in other parts of the country.