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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 64: 64: Clause 24, page 21, line 2, leave out ““has the same meaning as in section 31”” and insert ““means— (a) an individual as defined in section 31, or (b) where an application under subsection (2) has not previously been made, a child of such an individual;”” The noble Earl said: This amendment can be dealt with, I hope, quite speedily. I suppose I can live in hope. The Bill would give a right to the donor-conceived person to make a request to the registrar to receive identifiable and non-identifiable information about his or her donor parent. I support those provisions. The question raised by my amendment is whether that right should be extended to the children of a donor-conceived person in certain circumstances. If, for example, a woman with a young family discovers that she was donor-conceived, but dies before she has the chance to make an information request, there would appear to be no means for the authority to provide the relevant information to those members of her family with a direct interest in it. I question whether the Bill may be overly restrictive in that sense and would be glad to hear the Minister’s reaction. I beg to move.