PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Surrogacy: Lone Parents (11 December 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the timetable is for the first and second consultation periods on the non-urgent remedial order to allow a single person to apply for a parental order which transfers legal parenthood after a surrogacy arrangement.

Asked by:
Anna McMorrin (Labour)

Schedule 2 to the Human Rights Act requires that a draft of the remedial order with the required information is laid before Parliament for 60 days at two separate stages before the final draft is then approved by both Houses of Parliament.

There is no set period of time for the Government to respond to the representations supplied by the Joint Committee of Human Rights after the first 60 sitting days. The response will depend on the range and complexity of the representations to be considered and the changes that may be required in response. We currently estimate that the whole process should be completed before the summer recess in 2018.

Answered by:
Philip Dunne (Conservative)
14 December 2017