Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the High Court judgment in R (on the application of) Quincy Bell and A -v- Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and others [2020] EWHC 3274, issued on 1 December, what plans they have to instruct the (1) University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and (2) Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, (a) to stop any treatments of those under 16 relating to gender reassignment, and (b) to publish a report on the steps to be taken in response to any such treatments carried out before 1 December.

All trusts who work with the Gender Identity Development Service have been issued the amended service specification halting all future referrals to endocrinology services for under 16 year olds. A copy of Amendments to Service Specification for Gender Identity Development Service for Children and Adolescent (E13/S(HSS)/e) is attached.

A review of the service is being undertaken under the chairmanship of Dr Hillary Cass which will cover a number of different aspects of the service including treatment pathways.