Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 94615
Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Children
Tabled: 25 November 2025
Answered: 1 December 2025
Question
Sarah Pochin
Reform UK — Runcorn and Helsby
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that puberty blockers are not administered to under 16 year old children with a mental illness or learning disabilities.
Answer
Dr Zubir AhmedThe Government has introduced an indefinite ban on the sale or supply of gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues, also known as puberty blockers, for gender dysphoria and/or incongruence, to under 18 year olds. Children’s healthcare must always be eviden...
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