Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department collects statistics based on gender rather than sex.

The Department collects and publishes a number of statistical releases - of these, a small number include questions relating to sex and/or gender identity where relevant. These follow the previous Office for National Statistics (ONS) best practice of recording both sex and gender identity except for occasional exceptions which collect gender instead of sex. These are where it is important to collect gender but due to reporting or collection constraints it is not possible to additionally collect sex. The Department continues to engage with the ONS’ wider sex and gender identity harmonisation work to ensure all of government works towards a consistent way of collecting data on sex and gender identity.