Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 88424
Maternity Services: Sex
Tabled: 5 November 2025
Answered: 21 November 2025
Question
Shivani Raja
Conservative — Leicester East
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to review NHS communications to ensure that language on (a) pregnancy and (b) breast feeding reflects biological sexes.
Answer
Karin SmythWe are committed to working with NHS England to ensure health communications are as clear as possible and appropriately reflect sex as a protected characteristic in the Equality Act 2010. This includes communications about pregnancy and breast feeding. In...
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