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HL HL2715
Women's Prisons
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23 July 2026
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27 July 2026 · Answer
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27 July 2026
Summary
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to set out a policy on the suitability of accommodating biological males in the women’s prison estate.
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23 July 2026
Written question
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to set out a policy on the suitability of accommodating biological males in the women’s prison estate.
Source: Lords
27 July 2026
Answer
The policy inherited by this Government is that no transgender woman charged with or convicted of a sexual or violent offence, or who retains birth genitalia, can be held in the general women’s estate, other than in exceptional circumstances and where gra...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-07-23/HL2715
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1929745
- uk · wq-1929745 · source updated 27 July 2026