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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

I hesitate to intervene as a definite non-scientist. I apologise to the Committee for not being here for the very good debate that I understand there was on the previous amendment, which I had my name to. That was due to one of those problems of transport with which we are so familiar. My concern is the same as the one the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, was raising: whether or not future regulation and the embracing of a wider concept of the sort of work referred to by the noble Lord, Lord Patel, can be dealt with in the context of this piece of legislation, or whether—since we could be creating a situation where we are retrospectively working on something that is happening, which we have avoided in all the legislation and regulation so far—we could not preview some of the work at this stage, which the noble Lords, Lord Walton of Detchant and Lord Patel, are discussing, in a way that would enable it to be embraced under a broader regulatory umbrella. The latter possibility would not require the need for potentially retrospective primary legislation.