Question follow-through · 62060
Surrogacy: Mental Health
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 recommen
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 1 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2025
Question tabled
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 recommen
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jul 2025
Answer published
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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