To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many copies of his Department’s guidance for GPs, other clinicians and health professionals on the treatment of gender variant people and related leaflets have been printed; what the budget for distribution of the documents is; what criteria were used for the dissemination of the documents to (a) commissioners of services, (b) general practitioners and (c) other clinicians and health professionals; and if he will make a statement. (231300)

This information is not collected centrally. The Department’s guidance for general practitioners and other professionals on the care of gender variant people, first published in May 2008, has been placed in the Library.