Driving Licences: Gender

(asked on 1st February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2023 to Question 132588 on Driving Licences: Gender, if he will take steps to ensure that (a) driving licence applications replace the word gender with the word sex and (b) the driving licence systems record male and female biological sex as essential categories for all purposes.


Answered by
Richard Holden Portrait
Richard Holden
Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 8th February 2023

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is working to ensure consistency in the way such information is captured across its driving licence application services.

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