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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

I am very grateful to the Minister for his response to the amendment. I understood that the various colleges had come to the view that this was the best answer. However, it is, in a sense, recognition by authorities of the highest standing that they cannot answer the question that they themselves have proposed on regulation of an area on this spectrum. They can delineate perfectly the human end, which is all human, but they have not been able so far, with all their expertise, to define the other end. We just await the research that may produce that answer. In the mean time, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendments Nos. 9 to 18 not moved.] Clause 4 agreed to. [Amendments Nos. 19 and 20 not moved.]