Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the new specialist gender centre for children and young people in the East of England will open.

A Children and Young People’s Gender Service is anticipated to open in the East of England later in the year.

NHS England is making progress towards its ambition to open a gender service in each region of England by 2026. Three new services have opened in the North West, London, and the South West that offer a fundamentally different clinical model, embedding multi-disciplinary teams in specialist children’s hospitals.