A group of influential MPs will recommend that parents should be allowed to choose the sex of their unborn child in a report to be published this week.

The all-party Commons science and technology committee will say parents having fertility treatment should have the right to decide the sex of the embryo to be implanted.

Speaking to the Telegraph, a member of the committee said: "There is very little evidence that allowing parents to choose the sex of their child would have any imbalancing effect on society."