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Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Monday, 10 December 2007, in the House of Lords.

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (HL). Lords Committee stage third day. New clause considered and withdrawn. Clause 24 agreed to. Part 2 of 2 records.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
697 c91-110 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department of Health
Legislative stage
Committee stage
Procedure
New clauses
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House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Earl Howe | 697 c91-3 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 63: 63: Before Clause 24, insert the following new Clause— ““Birth certificate...
Baroness Barker | 697 c93-5 (Link to this contribution) Before I turn to the details of Amendment No. 68B, which stands in my name, I want to make an observ...
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Lord Harries of Pentregarth | 697 c95-6 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness, Lady Barker, has just said that she thinks that her amendment is a compromise th...
Viscount Craigavon | 697 c100 (Link to this contribution) The noble and learned Lord, when he replied from the Dispatch Box, told me that the figure that he h...
Baroness Warnock | 697 c99 (Link to this contribution) I put my name to this amendment because it has long been my view that not perpetrating official lies...
Viscount Craigavon | 697 c99-100 (Link to this contribution) I was partly prompted by the example that the noble Baroness, Lady Warnock, gave in her previous spe...
Lord Harries of Pentregarth | 697 c99 (Link to this contribution) Will the noble Lord clarify what he means by, "““a disaster for that person””?" Is he referring to ...
Lord Winston | 697 c99 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the intervention. I suppose that I am taking a judgmental view about whether it is...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 697 c96-7 (Link to this contribution) As one who is no scientist, I found, when listening to my colleagues on the Joint Committee talking ...
Lord Winston | 697 c98-9 (Link to this contribution) My friend the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, argues as if the scrutiny committee was unanimous on this iss...
Earl Howe | 697 c100 (Link to this contribution) The noble Viscount, Lord Craigavon, has rightly drawn our attention to the presumption in law that w...
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 697 c100-1 (Link to this contribution) I recollect well the factual exchange that I had with the noble Viscount, Lord Craigavon, and I reme...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 697 c101 (Link to this contribution) Members of the Committee are clearly making strenuous efforts to try to find a way forward. The nobl...
Lord Harries of Pentregarth | 697 c105 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt, but the Minister said ““unknowingly””. However, the HFEA and all the best c...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 697 c101-2 (Link to this contribution) I see that the noble and learned Lord is trying to find a way through this, but I wonder whether tha...
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 697 c101 (Link to this contribution) I was not attempting to explain the whole thing, but I would assume that the letter would go to the ...
Lord Harries of Pentregarth | 697 c102 (Link to this contribution) Before the noble Lord sits down, may I say that the current code of practice limits the number of fa...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 697 c102 (Link to this contribution) Before the noble Lord sits down, may I remind him that we were told that following the right of the ...
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 697 c102-3 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether we are running two separate issues together. One is about what may be in the public...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 697 c102 (Link to this contribution) The person concerned would not necessarily know whether he was one of 10, so the same issue applies....
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 697 c104-5 (Link to this contribution) The Government fully recognise the importance of donor-conceived children being told about their ori...
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 697 c103-4 (Link to this contribution) Briefly, I commend the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, for having made such a fantastically good attemp...
Lord Winston | 697 c105-6 (Link to this contribution) Forgive the intervention, but women often go into such arrangements through desperation. Although th...
Baroness O'Cathain | 697 c106 (Link to this contribution) Given that the child’s welfare is at the heart of the Bill, is not the issue here that the children ...
Earl Howe | 697 c108 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 64: 64: Clause 24, page 21, line 2, leave out ““has the same meaning as in sec...
Earl Howe | 697 c107-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in support of my amendment and that tabled by the n...
Baroness Barker | 697 c106-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank all noble Lords who have taken part and demonstrated just how difficult this issue is. I tak...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 697 c106 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness is right. These children are special and desperately wanted. That is at the nub o...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 697 c110 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move that the House do now resume. Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to.
Earl Howe | 697 c109-10 (Link to this contribution) I am very disappointed by that reply because, although the Minister envisions armies of people desce...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 697 c108-9 (Link to this contribution) The amendment would enable the children of donor-conceived people to contact the HFEA to obtain info...
Baroness Warnock | 697 c93 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with the noble Earl, Lord Howe. I shall speak briefly on the amendment to which I h...
Subjects
Children Disclosure of information Adoption Fertility Human embryo experiments Donors IVF Parents Medicine Registration Registration of births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships Research Stem cells
Legislation
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (HL) 2007-08
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