Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on 26 February (HCWS1369), what steps (1) the Department for Health and Social Care, and (2) NHS England, are taking to ensure that all relevant clinics share data to facilitate the data linkage study.

NHS England has undertaken further due diligence on the data sources that will underpin the study, and taken time to re-engage with data-sharing organisations, on which the study will be dependent, including refining the study design and data sharing requirement following discussion with adult gender clinics.

We now expect all commissioned adult gender services to collaborate with the study to enable its successful completion.

The Department continues to support NHS England in progressing the study.

No disciplinary action has been taken.