Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 94868

Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Children

Tabled: 26 November 2025

Answered: 16 December 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any NHS regional gender hubs have prescribed puberty blockers to patients under 18 since the publication of the Cass Review.

Answer

Karin Smyth

From 1 April 2024, NHS England adopted a new clinical commissioning policy that prevents the newly established Children and Young People's Gender Services from initiating prescriptions for gonadotrophin releasing hormone analogues for the purpose of puber...

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