To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on the pre-authorisation of parental orders to enable legal parenthood to be conferred on surrogate parents at the point a child is born.
Answered on
19 July 2018
The Government has supported a review of all surrogacy legislation by the Law Commission. Issues around the process and rules of applying for parental orders will be considered as part of the review.
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Department of Health and Social Care