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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

I am very grateful for the intervention of my noble friend. I know that he has been personally involved in that project and I am delighted that it is under way. That is a very worthwhile step forward. Nevertheless, I think he would accept that at the moment, for us to destroy 98 per cent of cord blood, and to have only four NHS facilities routinely collecting it, is not a satisfactory situation. It takes a speedy 24 hours to send cord blood stem cell transplant material from one country to another. That is the right way forward—not the unethical practice of designing babies as tissue donors. I beg to move.