Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to discuss with NHS England their support for the NHS Rainbow Badge Project, further to the latter's use of the term Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) on a recent social media post; and whether NHS England's contracts with the NHS Rainbow Project cover the use of offensive terms.

NHS England commissions the LGBT Foundation to deliver the NHS Rainbow Badge project which is intended to help lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people to seek care from the National Health Service with confidence. The social media account is not run on behalf of NHS England and does not represent its views.

The post was deleted and those with access to the account reminded of the standards which are expected.