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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]

I am grateful for that intervention. I am pressing the Minister on the apparent confusion between the HFEA and the Human Tissue Authority over who is responsible for giving licences. Of course the cornerstone of this legislation has to be consent, and clearly it must be the consent of the parents that enables a saviour sibling to be created in the first place, but there is confusion and I suspect that the Government are resisting adding ““Licences for therapy”” to the Bill because of the complex regulatory package that would be required, including the HFEA for embryo research, the HTA for tissues and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for human applications, although those bodies already act in sequence and it would be possible for them to work together to regulate stem cells derived from human embryos for therapies.