Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will instruct NHS England to implement the revisions to the Professional Records Standards Body's Core Information Standard on data items relating to sex and gender.

The Professional Records Standards Body's (PRSB) updates to the sex and gender data item representation for clinical use in the Core Information Standard have not yet been updated in the NHS England Standards Directory repository. Although these changes leave the PRSB specification and the NHS England Standards Directory out of step, it is proposed that the work to update the Standards Directory will commence next week.