Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 16916
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Publications
Tabled: 8 July 2026
Answered: 14 July 2026
Question
Mike Wood
Conservative — Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make it her policy to reference “sex” rather than “gender” in future departmental publications.
Answer
Seema MalhotraThe Department will continue to use the word 'gender' when it is appropriate to do so, as the Hon Member himself has done ever since arriving in Parliament. Indeed, looking back at his past contributions to oral debates, I was struck by the number of issu...
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