Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN HL2715

Women's Prisons

Tabled: 23 July 2026

Answered: 27 July 2026

Question

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to set out a policy on the suitability of accommodating biological males in the women’s prison estate.

Answer

The policy inherited by this Government is that no transgender woman charged with or convicted of a sexual or violent offence, or who retains birth genitalia, can be held in the general women’s estate, other than in exceptional circumstances and where gra...

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