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, whether they will review any cases where a patient of the female biological sex claimed that they were assaulted or raped by a person of male biological sex and the NHS Trust denied males were present based on the gender rather than the biological sex of the alleged assailant.

The Department cannot comment on individual cases. Due to the nature of the claims set out, the Department would expect that a police investigation would have been necessitated. As such, this would be a matter for the police and the individual National Health Service trusts to consider, where relevant.