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Baroness Barker to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O’Shaughnessy on 19 September (HL1420), whether, under the proposed remedial order relating to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, single people who are unable to provide their own genetic material will be permitted to apply for a parental order following a surrogacy arrangement; and if not, what consideration they have taken of the potential discriminatory effects of this, in particular against infertile single women.  HL1633

Question HL1633: tabled on 2 October 2017 and due for answer by 16 October 2017

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Baroness Barker to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O’Shaughnessy on 19 September (HL1420), whether, under the proposed remedial order relating to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, single people who are unable to provide their own genetic material will be permitted to apply for a parental order following a surrogacy arrangement; and if not, what consideration they have taken of the potential discriminatory effects of this, in particular against infertile single women.  HL1633
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Baroness Barker
Liberal Democrat
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