Ms Georgina Roberts:

That is alright.

On how we ensure these children have the support should they need it and how we ensure they are secure in that, my biggest comment is the best way to make children secure in their identity as surrogate-born people is to make their parents secure in their identity as parents. The biggest influence on children's lives is their parents. If one has parents who are not secure in their role as parents that is potentially where one gets difficulties but if we can maximise the security for parents, that they are parents like every other parent is a parent, then they are secure and they will have secure children.

On my idea on birth certificates, I have done a little mock-up. I hope no-one minds me holding it up to the camera. I am not sure people can see it. If it were a birth certificate one would have one's birth certificate, one's mother and father would be one's intended parents - mother and father as we have all described the mum and dad. Then one could have something at the bottom, like a bit of text, that says "For further information go to" and then supplies a website. On the back one could have a code. That code would be unique to each individual. One would go to the website and put in one's unique code. This method would ensure if people had to photocopy their birth certificate, for example, for anybody the front would be photocopied. Nobody else would have access to one's code or be able to use that code to go onto the website but with the hard copy would be able to turn it over and see one's code and input it on the website. It does not show there is something different about one because we want to protect privacy but it gives everybody the opportunity to use that and look at it. Somebody could go to the website, use his or her code that is protected and then access further information. I hope that is useful. Someone who was donor-conceived thought that might be useful as a system.