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HL HL9971
Prisons: Women
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1 September 2025
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10 September 2025 · Answer
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10 September 2025
Summary
To ask His Majesty's Government whether HM Prison and Probation Service interprets the word "woman" in the Prison Rules 1999 as excluding biological men in possession of a Gender Recognition Certificate, following the Supreme Court ruling in the case of F
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1 September 2025
Written question
To ask His Majesty's Government whether HM Prison and Probation Service interprets the word "woman" in the Prison Rules 1999 as excluding biological men in possession of a Gender Recognition Certificate, following the Supreme Court ruling in the case of F
Source: Lords
10 September 2025
Answer
The Supreme Court has ruled that for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, sex means biological sex, while also being clear that protections against discrimination for transgender people remain. We are currently assessing our policies relating to prisone...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-09-01/HL9971
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1830928
- uk · wq-1830928 · source updated 10 September 2025