Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consideration his Department has given to introducing child protection checks for parents commissioning surrogacy from abroad before being permitted to do so.

The Department is aware that surrogacy is an evolving area in terms of court judgments, societal attitudes and demands and policy approach, and is giving consideration to a range of surrogacy-related issues. The feasibility of safeguarding checks is being considered as part of on-going discussions within a cross-Departmental working group on international surrogacy.