Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) press releases, (2) announcements, and (3) statements, were made over the last six years by the Government Equalities Office on (a) transgender, transsexual and other sexual issues, and (b) disabled people.

The Government Equalities Office (GEO) is a unit in the Department for Education. It has lead responsibility within Government for policy on gender, sexual orientation and transgender equality, while the Department for Work and Pensions has lead responsibility for policy on disabled people.

Since the GEO became part of the Department for Education in 2015, that Department has released 75 press notices, statements or announcements referring to transgender and transsexual issues, and 12 referring to disabled people. Further information on press notices, statements or announcements referring to policies on disabled people will be held by the Department for Work and Pensions.

Similar information from earlier years when the GEO was first a separate Government Department and then later part of the Home Office and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, is not available.