Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether HM Prison and Probation Service interprets the word "woman" in the Prison Rules 1999 as excluding biological men in possession of a Gender Recognition Certificate, following the Supreme Court ruling in the case of For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers.

The Supreme Court has ruled that for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, sex means biological sex, while also being clear that protections against discrimination for transgender people remain. We are currently assessing our policies relating to prisoners in light of this ruling and we will be able to say more in due course.