Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 11 March (HL2275), what is their policy on the inclusion of biologically male athletes in women's sports.

Decisions regarding the involvement of trans people in competitive sport is a matter for individual governing bodies and international federations. UK Sport and Sport England encourage National Governing Bodies (NGBs) to carefully consider all sides of the debate, and access the best and most up to date research before making decisions.

UK Sport’s funding agreements require NGBs to ensure all World Class Programme athletes comply with the eligibility criteria of the relevant International Federation and competition governing body.

In addition, both UK Sport and Sport England require all NGBs receiving public money to be compliant with UK equality legislation.

To support NGBs, the Sports Council Equality Group (SCEG) which includes Sport England, Sport Wales, Sport Scotland, Sport Northern Ireland and UK Sport is currently working to provide an up to date picture of the current landscape in both domestic and elite sport, to ultimately enable the best and fairest decisions to be made by our NGBs around transgender athletes in sport. This should be available before the end of the year.