The Times | April 21, 2026
Since UK law changed in 2019 to allow single people the same surrogacy rights as couples, the number of single men who have had children via surrogacy has tripled –– but remains a small percentage of surrogacy parental orders overall.
Journal of Law & Society | November 21, 2025
A project in the UK focuses on the often-overlooked perspectives of children in surrogacy arrangements. Researchers engaged 37 children in card games and art to identify themes in their experiences of surrogacy, guiding the study authors’ policy recommendations for surrogacy.
Jersey Evening Post | November 3, 2025
A new government document offers guidance for those considering surrogacy in Jersey. The document comes after changes were made last year to incorporate assisted reproduction and surrogacy into processes to establish legal parentage.
Progress Educational Trust BioNews | August 11, 2025
The UK’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology plans to write a POSTnote, a briefing document that informs policy and legislation, on surrogacy law in the UK and internationally. The office issued a call for stakeholder submissions to inform the document, which could put surrogacy reform back on the legislative agenda in the UK.
Prospect | July 30, 2025
Because surrogacy contracts are not enforceable in the UK, disputes between surrogates and intended parents over parental rights quickly become complicated. Legal reforms would bring needed clarification for surrogates, intended parents, and children born via surrogacy.
Progress Educational Trust BioNews | July 28, 2025
An online event held by Progress Educational Trust brought together six speakers, including a surrogate, an intended parent, and surrogacy researchers and lawyers, to discuss changes in surrogacy in the UK since the Surrogacy Arrangements Act came into effect 40 years ago.
Progress Educational Trust BioNews | July 7, 2025
At a recent symposium at the University of Greenwich, researchers discussed the Law Commissions’ 2023 report and its recommendations for surrogacy law reform in the UK. They brought up issues unresolved in the report, including origin information on birth certificates, the implications of a surrogacy register, and the regulation of surrogacy advertising.
Progress Educational Trust BioNews | May 19, 2025
Citing other legislative priorities, the UK Government announced that despite its support for surrogacy, it is postponing updates to UK surrogacy law––a project that the Law Commission of England and Wales recommended in a report of proposed reforms published jointly with the Scottish Law Commission in 2023.
Progress Educational Trust | March 10, 2025
English courts’ recent rulings on legal parentage and international surrogacy journeys that involved actual or potential illegality make it clear that the courts see intended parents as responsible for doing their due diligence. The courts can refuse to issue parental orders if they find that intended parents have not.
The Society Law Gazette | December 16, 2024
The UK government and Law Commission met at the end of 2024 to discuss recommended reforms to UK surrogacy law made in 2023. The suggestions include creating a new avenue to legal parentage for domestic surrogacy arrangements.
