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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

My Lords, I rise briefly to support the amendment. The noble Earl has put a very good case to the House. It builds on a case he made in Committee and that we have discussed in various contexts since then. I suspect that overwhelmingly we would all agree that where genetic issues and illness may be involved, it must be right that people have access to that information. Increasingly, with DNA testing becoming routine, these things will come to the surface. Therefore, I think that the cause of truth is served by this being done as early as possible and that we will have to move away from the right to know to the duty to tell—a matter we discussed at earlier stages. Even though we have not been able to find a comprehensive solution to this problem—let us hope that when they debate it in another place they will discuss some of the issues we have looked at and perhaps will think further on the question—as a discrete question, this is a good one for the noble Earl to have brought to the House. Certainly it has my support.