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Health Services: Parents and Surrogacy

Asked by Mr Andrew SnowdenConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 3 July 2025UIN 62059

The question

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.

Answered by Karin Smyth

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 the care of surrogates and intended parents in surrogate births in England and Wales, which can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/having-a-child-through-surrogacy/care-in-surrogacy-guidance-for-the-care-of-surrogates-and-intended-parents-in-surrogate-births-in-england-and-wales

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