Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many accounts on Department for Work and Pensions databases have special restrictions on them to protect the confidentiality of trans individuals.

DWP takes many steps to protect the personal and sensitive information that citizens provide to us, and will apply additional protections to records that, for a variety of reasons, may require it. DWP does not routinely maintain specific counts of these cases and the numbers can fluctuate. However, it is possible to state that in June 2015 DWP applied such controls to approximately 8,000 records relating to individuals at the various stages of gender transition.