Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to change the birth registration process so that both parents' names are included on the birth certificate where LGBT+ parents (a) are not married and (b) have not conceived via an officially registered clinic; and if he will make statement.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, as amended in 2008, contains provisions for female same-sex couples to register a birth and gain legal parenthood if fertility treatment takes place at a United Kingdom licensed clinic.

The Government has no plans to change the legal parenthood provisions set out in the Act.