| Heading: |
Hospital Wards: Women |
| Question ID: |
1794468 |
| UIN: |
45763 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4592 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dr Caroline Johnson
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| Asking Member handle: |
drcarolinej
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@drcarolinej
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to ensure that biological women can access single-sex healthcare provision in NHS hospital wards. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-30 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4444 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Karin Smyth
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| Answering Member handle: |
karinsmyth
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@karinsmyth
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| Answer text: |
We have always supported the protection of single-sex spaces based on biological sex. The Supreme Court ruling about the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Acy 2010 case has provided much needed confidence and clarity to service providers.The National Healt... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |