A question on #SocialServices #Gender tabled by Baroness Thornhill on 09-01-2025 has been answered by Baroness Merron.

Heading: Social Services: Gender
Question ID: 1754203
UIN: HL3955
House: Lords
Date tabled: 2025-01-09
Asking Member ID: 4558
Asking Member display name: Baroness Thornhill
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Asking Member Twitter reference: Baroness Thornhill
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Question text: To ask His Majesty's Government why the Collection of Client Level Adult Social Care Data (No 3) Directions 2023 state that adult care providers must collect data based on gender, which is defined as "the gender the individual considers themselves to be",
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Date answered: 2025-02-03
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Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 347
Answering Member display name: Baroness Merron
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Answering Member Twitter reference: Baroness Merron
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Answer text: Client Level Data is the first national collection of individual social care records, and this data is collected by the Department from local authorities, rather than care providers. The purpose of the 2023 Directions is to assist the Department in its fu...
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Answering body ID: 17
Answering body name: Department of Health and Social Care
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