Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of whether NHS clinical guidance on gender assignment surgery on infants conforms with Yogyakarta Principles on human rights laws in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity; and what steps he has taken to ensure that such guidance conforms to those principles.

NHS England has advised that it does not commission gender assignment surgery on infants.

Non-surgical services are commissioned for adolescents based on a standard contract which can be found in the NHS Standard Contract for Gender Identity Development Service for Children and Adolescents at:

www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/e13-gender-identity-dev.pdf