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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

My Lords, at this time of night I will be very brief, but I must use my right of rebuttal to reply to some very serious points. I thank those who have supported me in this debate. I share the respect held for the noble Lord, Lord Walton, in all parts of this House. He said, perfectly correctly, that the medical ethics committee of the BMA had debated the consent exemptions for children and for tissue already in storage and considered them to be reasonable. But I am told in a letter, which arrived only today, that the BMA does not have a policy on the use of tissue.