---

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

My Lords, I support the amendment and, looking at the time, will make two short points. First, not only should the child be told, the child should be told as soon as possible. That is crucial. It is therefore very important, as the noble Baroness, Lady Howarth, said, that there should be good counselling and good information given to parents of children in that situation as to how to tell the child. On the second point, I very respectfully agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Neill of Blaisdon, said: it should be written into the Bill, so that people will know openly. They will not necessarily see the code, but they will see the Bill.