Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 117827

Review of the NHS Adult Gender Dysphoria Clinics in England

Tabled: 4 March 2026

Answered: 13 March 2026

Named Day

Question

Dr Caroline Johnson

Conservative — Sleaford and North Hykeham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the current Chair of the adult clinical reference group for adult gender dysphoria services refused to comply with requests for data for the date linkage study which was recommended by the

Answer

Karin Smyth

It is well documented that a number of adult gender clinics were unwilling to collaborate with data sharing requests made of them previously, in respect of the data linkage study, and that this meant that the data linkage study was unable to proceed at th...

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