Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-05-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the NHS will distinguish between sexuality and gender identity in the collection of data for people accessing Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services.
Alistair Burt
The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies dataset does not currently make the distinction between sexuality and gender identity. The dataset has two fields that may be of relevance to this question:
Sexual orientation, which is the current sexual orientation of a person and has the following valid codes:
|
1 |
Heterosexual |
|
2 |
Homosexual Gay/Lesbian |
|
3 |
Bi-sexual |
|
4 |
Person asked and does not know or is not sure |
|
9 |
Unknown |
|
Z |
Not stated (Person asked but declined to provide a response) |
Gender, which is the current gender of a person. Note that the classification is phenotypical rather than genotypical; i.e. it does not provide codes for medical or scientific purposes. It has the following valid codes:
|
0 |
Not known |
|
1 |
Male |
|
2 |
Female |
|
9 |
Not specified |
