Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have applied for a gender recognition certificate in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and how many of the applications have been (a) accepted and (b) refused.

Statistics for applications for Gender Recognition Certificates (GRC) are updated and published on GOV.UK (at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics) on a quarterly basis. The table below sets out various statistics for the last three years, including how many applications have been accepted (under the columns “Full GRC granted” and “Interim GRC granted”) and how many applications have been refused. Guidance on these statistics is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2017-and-2016-to-2017