Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure sex-based language is used in (a) NHS guidance and (b) NHS communications.

The National Health Service website aims to provide health advice and guidance that is clear and easy to understand, and that helps everyone who uses the website find the information they need, so they can make informed decisions about their own health.

The Government understands the need for health information to be as clear as possible and to use language that is grounded in biological sex. However, we recognise that for some people, their gender identity is different from their biological sex.