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Department for Business and Trade: Sanitation

Asked by Sir John HayesConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 17 November 2025UIN 88190

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many (a) single sex and (b) gender neutral bathroom facilities his Department provides in its premises.

Answered by Kate Dearden

Within the Department’s head office, the Old Admiralty Building, London, the Government Property Agency provides 32 male toilets, 39 female toilets and 7 non-gendered universal toilets (individual self-contained lockable toilet rooms which contain a toilet, washbasin and hand-drying facilities). This is in addition to 21 wheelchair accessible toilets.

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