Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were transferred from a male to a female prison after reassigning their gender in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017, and how many of those prisoners in each of those years had been convicted of sex-related offences.

The information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.