Question follow-through · 1522
Surrogacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his department has taken to ensure that the rights and lived experience of children born through surrogacy are reported to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jun 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Nursing and Midwifery Council · 28 Aug 2026
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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
14 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his department has taken to ensure that the rights and lived experience of children born through surrogacy are reported to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
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1 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Department has not undertaken an assessment on the compliance of safeguarding procedures for surrogacy arrangements with the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children.The Government has not taken any steps to ensure that the rights and lived experienc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Nursing and Midwifery Council
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of (a) UNISON’s 2026 NMC member survey on staff satisfaction and (b) its findings relating to (i) senior leadership, (ii) organisat