UK reward metrics · Time Off & Family

Is surrogacy treated with parity to adoption in pay and leave policies?

Source lumi HRBase 265 organisationsFieldwork 2026 H1

70.9%Not addressed

70.9% of organisations in the lumi HR community answered “Not addressed” on surrogacy parity with adoption (base: 265 UK organisations, 2026 H1).

Figures describe organisations in the lumi HR community, not a random sample of UK employers.

How UK organisations answered

Full parity 10.6% Partial 18.5% Not addressed 70.9%
Surrogacy parity with adoption (base: 265 organisations, 2026 H1). Percentages percentages may not sum to 100 because of rounding.
Surrogacy parity with adoption: share of organisations by answer
AnswerShare of organisations
Full parityrare10.6%
Partialrare18.5%
Not addressedcommon70.9%

Common, alternative and rare describe how each answer sits against the community: the most chosen answer is common; an answer chosen by fewer than one in five organisations is rare.

Definition

Whether employees having a child via surrogacy get the same pay and leave as those adopting, fully, partly, or not at all. See the methodology for how the base is built, how not-applicable answers are handled, the public floor, and which organisations are excluded.

Cite this figure
Source: lumi HR, UK Reward Metrics, September 2026, lumihr.co.uk/metrics/surrogacy-parity-with-adoption
Last updated 19 September 2026 · Data licence: CC BY 4.0 for the figures in the CSV download.

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