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Surrogacy: Mental Health

Asked by Mr Andrew SnowdenConservativeMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 1 July 2025UIN 62060

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Law Commission report entitled Building families through surrogacy: a new law, published on 28 March 2023, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of implementing the recommendation on taking away a mother’s parental rights at birth* on levels of risk of adverse mental health effects for the mother should she change her mind after birth.

Answered by Sarah Sackman

The Ministry of Justice has not carried out an assessment of the potential impact of implementing this recommendation.

The Government will publish a response in due course. Any consideration of this specific recommendation and its implications would form part of this wider work.

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