Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 86802
Maternity Services: Sex
Tabled: 30 October 2025
Answered: 24 November 2025
Question
Shivani Raja
Conservative — Leicester East
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of not referencing biological sexes in some maternity care guidance on the safeguarding of patients.
Answer
Karin SmythThe Department’s longstanding position is that health information should be as clear as possible and language should be used that appropriately reflects sex as defined in the Equality Act 2010.National maternity guidance and key documents, such as the Thr...
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