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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

I wonder whether I might put in a very brief word as I think that my laboratory invented pre-implantation diagnosis. We screened the first patient for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and published that work some years ago. I wonder whether this amendment is necessary. I have had many quarrels with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority over the years, as is well documented, but I have never felt that its ability and effectiveness in making sure that people were properly trained in the various techniques involved in embryology were anything less than adequate. History has shown that it has been very careful in making sure that laboratories around this country have performed up to standard as regards all the techniques involved with embryos. On that basis I am not sure that a further amendment is justified.