Question follow-through · 29401
Surrogacy: Parental Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many parental order applications in each of the last 10 years involved payments to a surrogate which exceeded what the court considered to be reasonable expenses, and in how many such cases the additional pay
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 14 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Oct 2026
- Answer
- No published answer in this record
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Recorded timeline
14 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many parental order applications in each of the last 10 years involved payments to a surrogate which exceeded what the court considered to be reasonable expenses, and in how many such cases the additional pay
12 Oct 2026
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