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Combined Authorities: Sex

Asked by Kevin HollinrakeConservativeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled Answered 4 June 2025UIN 53566

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2025 to Question 38621 on Combined Authorities, if she will make it her departmental policy to ask for sex not gender in future consultations.

Answered by Alex Norris

We will be guided by the revised EHRC Code of Practice when it becomes available.

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