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[Written Question] Human Rights: Surrogacy
Question by: Carla Lockhart Answering Body: Department of Health and Social Care Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the report by Women’s Policy Centre titled ‘The Case for a Universal Ban on Surrogacy’, dated April 2026.
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‘They were laughing’: Israel’s use of rape and sexual abuse in prisons
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