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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 the remedial order relating to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 which will allow single people to apply for parental orders following a surrogacy arrangement will allow applications from single people who are unable to provide their own genetic material; and if not, what assessment they have made of any potential discriminatory effects this could have, in particular against infertile single women.  HL1937

Question HL1937: tabled on 12 October 2017 and due for answer by 26 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 the remedial order relating to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 which will allow single people to apply for parental orders following a surrogacy arrangement will allow applications from single people who are unable to provide their own genetic material; and if not, what assessment they have made of any potential discriminatory effects this could have, in particular against infertile single women.  HL1937
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Baroness Barker
Liberal Democrat
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