Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to refund people who have paid for PCR tests but who have not received results from (a) Test n Go and (b) 1010 Labs; and if he will take steps to remove those companies from the Government's recommendations on GOV.UK.
Answered by Maggie Throup
Consumers requiring a refund from a private test provider should contact the provider in the first instance. The Government does not endorse, recommend or approve any private test provider. Those on the GOV.UK list have demonstrated compliance with the Government's minimum standards and may be removed on a precautionary basis pending investigation if they breach these standards.
For reasons of commercial sensitivity, we are unable to release information which would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of any entity. To list the names of companies that have been subject to corrective measures and the subsequent actions undertaken could undermine confidence in those providers and prejudice their commercial interests.
Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of girls aged (a) 11 to 14 and (b) 15 to 18 who have presented to A&E with sexual exploitation and/or sexual violence assessed as a factor in each year since 2018.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
No such estimate has been made as the information requested is not collected centrally.
Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government plans to bring forward legislative proposals on surrogacy before the planned report on the issue by the Law Commission in 2021; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The Law Commissions of England and Wales, and Scotland, are undertaking an independent review of United Kingdom surrogacy legislation, funded by the Government. I am intending to meet with the Law Commissions’ team in the spring to discuss their analysis of the consultation responses and the policy implications.
The Government has no plans to publish any draft legislative about surrogacy of its own.
The Government does not provide a formal Government response to the Commissions’ independent consultations. Under the Government’s Protocol with the Commissions we commit to providing an interim response to the recommendations within six months of publication of the report, and a full response within one year. The Law Commissions intend to publish a report, which will consider the responses received to their consultation and set out their recommendations for reform of the law, in 2021. This will be accompanied by a draft Bill.
Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the Government's response to the Law Commission's consultation entitled Building families through surrogacy: a new law, which closed on 11 October 2019.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The Law Commissions of England and Wales, and Scotland, are undertaking an independent review of United Kingdom surrogacy legislation, funded by the Government. I am intending to meet with the Law Commissions’ team in the spring to discuss their analysis of the consultation responses and the policy implications.
The Government has no plans to publish any draft legislative about surrogacy of its own.
The Government does not provide a formal Government response to the Commissions’ independent consultations. Under the Government’s Protocol with the Commissions we commit to providing an interim response to the recommendations within six months of publication of the report, and a full response within one year. The Law Commissions intend to publish a report, which will consider the responses received to their consultation and set out their recommendations for reform of the law, in 2021. This will be accompanied by a draft Bill.
Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the timetable is for the first and second consultation periods on the non-urgent remedial order to allow a single person to apply for a parental order which transfers legal parenthood after a surrogacy arrangement.
Answered by Philip Dunne
Schedule 2 to the Human Rights Act requires that a draft of the remedial order with the required information is laid before Parliament for 60 days at two separate stages before the final draft is then approved by both Houses of Parliament.
There is no set period of time for the Government to respond to the representations supplied by the Joint Committee of Human Rights after the first 60 sitting days. The response will depend on the range and complexity of the representations to be considered and the changes that may be required in response. We currently estimate that the whole process should be completed before the summer recess in 2018.
Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the timetable is for the break after the first consultation period on the non-urgent remedial order to allow a single person to apply for a parental order which transfers legal parenthood after a surrogacy arrangement.
Answered by Philip Dunne
Schedule 2 to the Human Rights Act requires that a draft of the remedial order with the required information is laid before Parliament for 60 days at two separate stages before the final draft is then approved by both Houses of Parliament.
There is no set period of time for the Government to respond to the representations supplied by the Joint Committee of Human Rights after the first 60 sitting days. The response will depend on the range and complexity of the representations to be considered and the changes that may be required in response. We currently estimate that the whole process should be completed before the summer recess in 2018.
Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health of 7 February 2017, Official Report, column 214, whether the Government plans to introduce (a) a remedial order or (b) an urgent remedial order to allow single parents to apply for parental orders.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Government recognises the value of surrogacy as one of a number of options in helping people who can’t have children create a family.
Drafting work on the remedial order is ongoing. We currently estimate it will be laid in the autumn session of Parliament.
The Department supports the proposal by the Law Commission of England and Wales to include a project about surrogacy in its work programme for 2017-20.
Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on surrogacy.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Government recognises the value of surrogacy as one of a number of options in helping people who can’t have children create a family.
Drafting work on the remedial order is ongoing. We currently estimate it will be laid in the autumn session of Parliament.
The Department supports the proposal by the Law Commission of England and Wales to include a project about surrogacy in its work programme for 2017-20.
Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to review legislation on surrogacy.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Government recognises the value of surrogacy as one of a number of options in helping people who can’t have children create a family.
Drafting work on the remedial order is ongoing. We currently estimate it will be laid in the autumn session of Parliament.
The Department supports the proposal by the Law Commission of England and Wales to include a project about surrogacy in its work programme for 2017-20.
Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has a serious intention to pursue its request to the Law Commission to include a project on surrogacy in the 13th programme of law reform.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Government recognises the value of surrogacy as one of a number of options in helping people who can’t have children create a family.
Drafting work on the remedial order is ongoing. We currently estimate it will be laid in the autumn session of Parliament.
The Department supports the proposal by the Law Commission of England and Wales to include a project about surrogacy in its work programme for 2017-20.