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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

I am talking not about the past but the future. I am talking about the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Alton. I am not making any comment about any event in the past whatever or about any the noble Lord in this House. However, in future it is important that we make it absolutely clear that no one on the authority has any pecuniary interests whatever. That is what transparency means. If in political parties one has to be transparent in this way, declaring our interests—as it is quite proper that we should all have to—in this House and another place, and if people are concerned about transparency in political funding, we must ensure that those who serve on this authority have no pecuniary interests. It would be ethically abhorrent if they were allowed to do so.