Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, following the decision of the Supreme Court in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16, what plans they have to include biological sex of patients on medical records.

The Department is committed to accurately recording biological sex, not just for research and insight, but also for patient safety. We have already acted on this point. On 20 March 2025, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Wes Streeting MP) instructed the National Health Service to immediately suspend applications for NHS number changes for children under 18 years old to safeguard them. It was completely wrong that children's NHS numbers can be changed if they change gender; children's safety must come first.