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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am not sure whether technically I can do this. I want to ask a question of the noble Baroness before she sits down, but maybe she has already sat down. My question is not about whether one should support one or the other. My own instinct is to support all avenues of research because you cannot predict which will be the most fruitful long term. It is simply about whether I share her understanding of the import of paragraph (b) of proposed new subsection (6) which states: "““There is cogent evidence, which must include published, peer-reviewed scientific data””." Can the noble Baroness help me? On my reading, that would mean that you could never do research for the first time.