Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what processes they have put in place to ensure that young people who transfer from NHS children and young people’s gender services to adult gender dysphoria clinics continue to receive safeguarding protections and holistic assessment equivalent to those recommended by the Cass Review before any hormonal or surgical treatment is offered.

As recommended in his report of the operational and delivery review of NHS adult gender dysphoria clinics in England, Dr David Levy is working with a broad range of clinical specialties to develop a new, standardised biopsychosocial assessment, intended to be used across all adult gender services with the aim of ensuring the holistic needs of all patients are met. NHS England will hold a public consultation on the proposed new service specification for adult gender services before final decisions are made.