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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

My Lords, I have no wish to change the rules of the House. It is perfectly within the rules for me to intervene in my noble friend’s speech to ask him a question, as opposed to what has been going on, about which I had some doubts, with people asking views of the Minister during my noble friend’s speech. Would my noble friend consider that, were this amendment to be enacted, it would still remain possible for the Government to give guidance? The only difference is that it would be guidance on the basis of what we had put into the Bill, and not what we might have put into it.