Surrogate Motherhood

(asked on 24th February 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to Surrogacy in the UK: Myth Busting and Reform, published in November 2015, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to reform the law governing surrogacy to better balance the rights of those involved and the welfare of children born via surrogacy.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 3rd March 2016

A search of the Department’s central correspondence system shows that the Department received 22 representations that made direct or indirect reference to the report `Surrogacy in the UK: Myth Busting and Reform' since it was published in November 2015.

The Government has no current plans to change the legislation in respect of surrogacy arrangements.

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