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Gender Dysphoria: Prescriptions

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 16 December 2025UIN 94869

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what instructions his Department issued to NHS regional gender hubs on prescribing restrictions.

Answered by Karin Smyth

In March 2024, NHS England published its clinical policy on puberty suppressing hormones for children and young people who have gender incongruence and/or gender dysphoria.

This set out that puberty supressing hormones are not available as a routine commissioning treatment option for the treatment of children and young people who have gender incongruence and/or gender dysphoria.

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