Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that data collected by his (a) Department and (b) Department’s associated arms-length bodies records biological sex as opposed to gender identity.

There is no current data standard for biological sex, gender or gender identity.

The Department for Work and Pensions has not made any independent assessment to ensure arms-length bodies record biological sex as opposed to gender identity.