Lord Watts
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(1 year, 8 months ago)
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Lord Bellamy (Con)
My Lords, these matters will be considered fully in a forthcoming review, hopefully by the Law Commission. That commission is completing important work on surrogacy at this moment. Subject to final agreement, I hope to make a further announcement very soon indeed.
Lord Watts (Lab)
My Lords, there are models around the world that the Government could adopt. Why do they not look to those models and introduce them now?
Lord Bellamy (Con)
The Government think that the Law Commission is best placed to investigate all these matters, establish what the existing law and practice is and where the problems lie, and make comparative studies of various other jurisdictions, including Australia and elsewhere, as has already been mentioned.