Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the response of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust to concerns raised by clinicians about the use of puberty-blocking drugs to treat young people presenting with gender dysphoria.

The board of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust will meet to formally agree a remedial plan that responds to the various concerns. In the interim, the Chief Executive of the Trust has publicly acknowledged the need for improvements in the service and has announced plans for bringing in senior clinical expertise from outside the service to help implement change.