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Question

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Smith of Malvern on 14 August (HL9892), what assessment they have made of the application of the protected characteristic of gender reassignment under the Equality Act 2010 to the following identities: (1) non-binary, (2) maverique, (3) two-spirit, (4) demiboy, (5) demigirl, (6) neutrois, (7) aporagender, (8) polygender, (9) intergender, (10) trigender, (11) omnigender, (12) multigender, (13) pangender, (14) bigender, (15) agender, (16) androgyne, (17) demigender, (18) genderfluid, (19) genderqueer, (20) genderflux, and (21) greygender.

Answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The Government has made no such assessment.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Smith of Malvern on 16 July (HL8638) and 26 August (HL9576), on which date before the speech by the Secretary of State for Education on 3 February it was decided that their commitment to recruit 6,500 new expert teachers would not include primary schools.

Answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

As previously set out in responses to written parliamentary questions HL8638 and HL9576, the department is targeting the 6,500 teachers pledge towards mainstream secondary schools and colleges, and special schools.

Regular public statements have been made on this key pledge, including for instance in my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education’s first sector email communication. The pledge is focused on sectors where there is a need for more teachers. Demographic changes throughout this parliament means pupil numbers will increase in secondary schools, and particularly in further education, while there has been significant decrease in the number of pupils in primary schools. There are 60,000 fewer pupils in primary schools compared to last year, and around 172,000 fewer compared to the 2018/19 peak.

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Found: Letter dated 02/10/2025 from Baroness Smith of Malvern to Lord Hacking regarding the Children's Wellbeing

Found: Letter dated 02/10/2025 from Baroness Smith of Malvern to Lord Crisp regarding the Children's Wellbeing

Found: Letter dated 02/10/2025 from Baroness Smith of Malvern to Lord Lucas regarding the Children's Wellbeing