Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the judgment in Hand v George [2017] EWHC 533 and the Answer of 15 February 2022 to Question 119633 on Succession: Adoption, what assessment has been made of the potential impact of clauses 3(2) and 3(3)(a) of the Bill of Rights Bill on the entitlement of adoptive children to equal inheritance rights in wills made before 1976.

As is the case whenever a new government is formed, we are now looking again at the Bill of Rights to ensure that it meets the government’s objectives.