Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the letter from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care on 21 June, whether any staff employed in the Gender Identity Development Service of the Tavistock Clinic will be employed in any capacity in the new centres being opened from April 2024 to treat children presenting with apparent gender dysphoria.

This information requested is not held centrally. It is the responsibility of the trusts providing the new services to undertake staff recruitment. The new services are building multi-disciplinary teams of specialists to provide care to the children and young people referred to these services.

The new services will be delivered in line with the NHS England’s new interim service specification, which reflects the new clinical model set out by Dr Cass. As such, any staff that move from the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust will be fully signed up to this approach. An oversight group will ensure any training delivered to staff is in line with the new clinical approach.