Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to issue guidance to ensure that assessments of gender clinic mental health outcomes focus on whether the individual (1) is employed or in school, (2) has a romantic partner, or (3) routinely ventures outside the home.

There is no plan to issue such guidance. In response to the report, Operational and delivery review of NHS adult gender dysphoria clinics in England, published in December 2025, NHS England is developing a standard biopsychosocial assessment framework for adult gender services, which will be incorporated into a proposed new service specification for the purpose of public consultation in 2026/27.