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Written Question
Gender Dysphoria: Health Services
Wednesday 7th January 2026

Asked by: Lord Young of Norwood Green (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect to implement recommendation (5) of the Cass Review.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

NHS England is responsible for delivery of the Data Linkage Study. It is a retrospective study based on an analysis of data collected historically for a cohort of adults who, as children, were cared for under a former model of National Health Service gender care, the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). This study requires no active patient participation and instead relies on an analysis of the available digital information held within health records and other nationally held databases. The analysis will look for potential linkages or associations that do not prove ‘cause and effect’ but nonetheless may provide useful insights on the experience and outcomes of former GIDS patients.

NHS England has taken time to undertake due diligence work on the data sources critical to the study, and to work with organisations to refine the planned approach to data sharing. Study approvals are currently in progress. As with usual research practice, the Data Linkage Study protocol will be made available in the public domain once independent research and ethical approvals have been appropriately secured, at which point the analytical work can begin.

Written Question
Gender Dysphoria: Health Services
Wednesday 7th January 2026

Asked by: Lord Young of Norwood Green (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government when the results of NHS England's call for evidence on a clinical pathway for gender detransitioning will be published.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

We are working with NHS England to implement the recommendations from the Cass Review to ensure everyone gets the high-quality care they need. This includes setting up a clinical pathway and provision for people considering detransition.

On 30 October 2025, NHS England published a call for evidence on a clinical pathway for adults who have previously undergone a gender transition and who wish to detransition. The call for evidence closes on 28 December 2025

NHS England is considering all relevant feedback that has been submitted. It will collate views, evidence and insights into a summary evidence report.

NHS England will use this evidence, together with other intelligence and further engagement, to begin to define a clinical pathway which will be tested through further stakeholder engagement and public consultation in 2025/26.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 12 Jul 2022
General Practitioners: Shortage

"My Lords, one of the disincentives for both men and women GPs is the quality of accommodation. They are in overcrowded buildings. There is a good example from a care commissioning group in my area which spent £1 million planning a new centralised health centre, which would have provided top-of-the-range …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 04 Jul 2022
Paramedic Services

"To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to prevent avoidable deaths caused by delays to the arrival of paramedic services...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 04 Jul 2022
Paramedic Services

"My Lords, it is difficult to thank the Minister for the Answer because it is a totally unsatisfactory one. I have been raising this question for about the last six months. The reality is that, as the noble Baroness, Lady Uddin, told me when her son had a stroke and …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 14 Jun 2022
Personal Protective Equipment: Waste

"My Lords, does the Minister agree that the vast majority of hospitals are using single-use PPE garments which go straight to landfill after one use? There is available on the market a product with RFI tags, which enables it to be simply laundered for 70 different uses. Should we not …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 09 Jun 2022
Health and Social Care Leadership Review

"My Lords, I echo the point made by my noble friend Lady Merron about the health service and the people who have done such sterling work within it. After all, they saved my life twice so I certainly recognise that.

However, I have to say that, like the report, the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 09 Jun 2022
Health and Social Care Leadership Review

"I will, but hardly anyone has contributed to this debate. I have posed one question and I will pose a few more—I do not see why I should not take the opportunity. I would see why if the Chamber were full of people participating, but it is a bit rich …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 09 Jun 2022
Health and Social Care Leadership Review

"I have posed one question, and I will pose a couple more. I will move to further questions and my criticism of the report. First, I agree with a lot that the noble Lord, Lord Lilley, said. On diversity, we recently had a situation, on which I would welcome a …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 31 Jan 2022
Covid-19: Antiviral Pills

"My Lords, for the Minister’s information, a trial is currently going on using xenon gas and MRI scans, which is looking particularly at the damage to lungs as a result of long Covid. It might be useful for him to get his officials to advise him on this...."
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