Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 120432
Surrogacy
Tabled: 12 March 2026
Answered: 23 March 2026
Named DayQuestion
Carla Lockhart
Democratic Unionist Party — Upper Bann
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on trends in the number of children born via surrogacy abroad, in particular in (a) Kazakhstan and (b) Nigeria.
Answer
Karin SmythThe Department has not made an assessment of the potential impact of the increase in the number of children entering the United Kingdom who have been born through surrogacy in countries where commercial surrogacy operates, on the UK's not-for-profit surro...
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