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Health Services: Parents and Surrogacy

Commons · Question 62059 · Tabled 23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 3 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure NHS trusts provide consistent (a) care and (b) guidance to intended (i) parents and (ii) surrogates.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 3 Jul 2025

The Government supports surrogacy as a part of assisted conception options, to help people who have difficulty starting their own family. To support intended parents and surrogates, the Department has published the guidance Care in surrogacy: guidance for...