Surrogacy
(asked on 12th June 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the effectiveness of legislation on surrogacy at preventing the coercion of women; and whether he plans to introduce legislative proposals to help prevent such coercion.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 20th June 2023
The Law Commissions of England & Wales and Scotland published a full report of their review of surrogacy legislation, with a draft bill, on 28 March 2023. The Government is considering the report and will publish a response in due course.