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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

My Lords, I, too, begin by adding my thanks to the noble Baroness and to the noble Lord, Lord Darzi, for the way in which they have dealt with the Bill. The noble Lord, Lord Darzi, is familiar with many of the technicalities, but the way in which the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, has coped with some of the noble and scientific Lords has been remarkable. I congratulate them. On the amendment, the noble Baroness went almost all the way. I am going to disclose one thing that she told me in her telephone conversation this afternoon: that she would work to get something into the Bill in another place. That was not repeated on the Floor of the House. If she could, just by nodding, give me her assurance that, as well as discussing it with us, as she has offered, she will discuss it with her noble friends in another place—