Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government what are the (1) dates, (2) names of attendees, and (3) the groups or organisations those attendees represented, of all meetings on or after 1 December 2020 where the draft schools guidance on gender-questioning children, published 19 December 2023, was discussed where both (a) representatives (including Commissioners and officers) of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and (b) representatives (including Ministers and civil servants) of the Department for Education, attended.

The department works closely with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) at both a ministerial and official level. There have been a number of meetings between Ministers and departmental officials and the EHRC since December 2020, which are listed below:

• The Secretary of State for Education met the noble Lady, Baroness Falkner on 2 May 2023.
• The noble Lady, Baroness Berridge (in her previous role as Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the department) met with EHRC on 10 December 2020.
• Departmental officials hold regular meetings with officials at the EHRC which cover the guidance and other matters. Meetings since 1 December have taken place on 27 April 2022, 23 June 2022, 29 September 2022, 24 November 2022, 9 February 2023, 27 April 2023 and 17 August 2023.