Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Lemos on 27 July (HL2715), how many exemptions were granted under the previous Government to permit a transgender woman who retained male genitalia, or who had been charged with or convicted of a sexual or violent offence, to be accommodated in the general women's estate; and how many such exemptions were granted in each of the past five years for which records are available.

The number of ministerial exemptions provided to transgender women since the exemption process was introduced in February 2023 is shown in the table below. For data protection reasons, the exact figure is not given where the total is five or fewer.