Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 39059

Hormone Treatments: Young People

Tabled: 18 March 2025
Answered: 2 April 2025
Named Day

Question

Rosie Duffield

IndependentCanterbury

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of new prescriptions issued by NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Services for (a) oestrogen and (b) testosterone to young people aged 16-18

Answer

Karin Smyth
Since 1 April 2024 there have been no new initiations of exogenous hormones through the NHS Children and Young People's Gender Service.