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Debate on bill on Monday, 12 May 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Alan Johnson. The answering member was Lord Lansley.

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. Second reading debate. Agreed to on division (340 votes to 78). Programme motion for proceedings in Committee, Report and Third Reading and other proceedings. Agreed to on division (265 votes to 149). Money resolution agreed to on question. Ways and means resolution agreed to on question.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
475 c1063-169 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department of Health
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions
Money resolutions
Ways and means resolutions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Deposited Paper DEP2008-1173
Thursday, 1 May 2008
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 475 c1082 (Link to this contribution) I inform the House that Mr. Speaker has imposed a 10-minute limit on Back-Bench contributions.
John Bercow | 475 c1115 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a characteristically sagacious speech. May I put it to him that much depend...
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Chris McCafferty | 475 c1117-8 (Link to this contribution) No. I have only 10 minutes. In particular, I support the retention of the requirement for medical p...
Chris McCafferty | 475 c1116-7 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to be able to speak in this debate on a Bill that I very much welcome. I believe that...
Robert Key | 475 c1115-6 (Link to this contribution) We are, indeed, here to exercise our judgment, as in the famous Bristol speech, which my hon. Friend...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 475 c1119 (Link to this contribution) The House is at its best when it is debating a Bill of this nature. The contributions from right hon...
Chris McCafferty | 475 c1118-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a valuable contribution to the debate. I sincerely hope that we get our opp...
John Bercow | 475 c1118 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way and I entirely agree with her. It is a pity ...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 475 c1119-20 (Link to this contribution) It was not a plea for more time. I want to start by echoing the hon. Members for Norwich, North (Dr...
Gary Streeter | 475 c1109 (Link to this contribution) I will not, if my hon. Friend does not mind. I think Members will accept from their constituency ex...
Gary Streeter | 475 c1109 (Link to this contribution) I will not, if my hon. Friend does not mind. I have given way twice, and if I did so again I would b...
John Bercow | 475 c1111-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has much wisdom about these matters, so I listen to him speak on them with the gr...
Ian Gibson | 475 c1109-11 (Link to this contribution) I believe that this is a skirmish in comparison with what will happen next Monday and Tuesday, when ...
Robert Key | 475 c1113-5 (Link to this contribution) My constituents have a range of views on this issue, and for the avoidance of doubt I have posted de...
Ian Gibson | 475 c1112-3 (Link to this contribution) Yes, that is true; it is the stuff of science fiction, and people see it on the television so they a...
Robert Key | 475 c1115 (Link to this contribution) There is a difficulty with this matter. I have produced from my copious notes the result of a poll t...
David Burrowes | 475 c1115 (Link to this contribution) It was a pleasure to serve on the Committee with my hon. Friend, to discuss issues with him and to a...
Iris Robinson | 475 c1127 (Link to this contribution) I remind the hon. Gentleman that not only the Catholic Church but evangelicals across the whole spec...
Iris Robinson | 475 c1124-6 (Link to this contribution) I make no apology for speaking as a born-again Christian. I represent the voice of those who look to...
Emily Thornberry | 475 c1122-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the provisions in the Bill that allow the screening of embryos for tissue matches to enabl...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 475 c1122 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. The issue of saviour siblings is very pertinent. If, through pre-genetic diagnosis, ...
William Cash | 475 c1122 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 475 c1121-2 (Link to this contribution) I had not realised that the hon. Gentleman was speaking in my time. However, the whole issue of admi...
Desmond Turner | 475 c1128 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. We should use cord blood as a resource; the Anthon...
David Burrowes | 475 c1128 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think it acceptable that we throw away 98 per cent. of cord blood—a resource...
Desmond Turner | 475 c1127-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady; I am well aware of that. What was interesting was the Italian law: at that t...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 475 c1121 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. That is a very important point. However, I want to establish...
Robert Key | 475 c1121 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman confirm my understanding of the difference for the Newcastle team if they can...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 475 c1121 (Link to this contribution) But research is not like that; pure research is about finding answers for which we did not even have...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 475 c1120-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments and for his diligent support for the Bill. Under the exp...
David Burrowes | 475 c1120 (Link to this contribution) I commend the hon. Gentleman on chairing the Joint Committee with such dexterity and on dealing with...
John Bercow | 475 c1121 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
John Bercow | 475 c1121 (Link to this contribution) Some colleagues labour under the misapprehension that success in research terms is like a result on ...
John Bercow | 475 c1140 (Link to this contribution) It is certainly true that my hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, Southgate envisaged harm to saviour...
Jacqui Lait | 475 c1135 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to follow the eloquent plea for the status quo that the hon. Member for Crosby (Mr...
John Bercow | 475 c1135 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that those of us who were fortunate enough to attend the briefing on the m...
David Burrowes | 475 c1130-2 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I have already taken two interventions and any more would be using up my time. We ...
Claire Curtis-Thomas | 475 c1132-5 (Link to this contribution) Over the past weeks and months, I have read the Hansard transcripts of the many hours of debate on t...
Paul Farrelly | 475 c1138 (Link to this contribution) I, too, was a member of the Science and Technology Committee, along with the hon. Gentleman and my h...
Evan Harris | 475 c1138-40 (Link to this contribution) What I can say is that when the Science and Technology Committee considered the issue more recently,...
Jacqui Lait | 475 c1135-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree. I am pleased that members of the scientific community, after many years of coaxing, are beg...
Evan Harris | 475 c1137-8 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest as a member of the British Medical Association medical ethics committee and a ...
Peter Bone | 475 c1130 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to my hon. Friend with great concern. Surely there must be an age limit somewhere in ...
David Burrowes | 475 c1130 (Link to this contribution) There is no safeguard in the Bill concerning any age limit. The Government talk a lot about ““Every...
John Pugh | 475 c1128 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Desmond Turner | 475 c1128-9 (Link to this contribution) No. I have given way twice; I shall not do so again. I do not have the time. As soon as the admixed...
Peter Bone | 475 c1129 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Desmond Turner | 475 c1129 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not; I do not have the time. The issue is simple; there is clearly a developmental time ...
David Burrowes | 475 c1129-30 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Brighton, Kemptown (Dr. Turner) is keen to seek evidence. As a member of the Joi...
Baroness Primarolo | 475 c1130 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman that it would be unacceptable for organs to be donated an...
David Burrowes | 475 c1130 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention, but scrutiny in the other place showed that although whole orga...
Evan Harris | 475 c1154 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Mark Simmonds | 475 c1152-4 (Link to this contribution) This has been an excellent and stimulating debate, which has belied the concerns, rumours and accusa...
John Pugh | 475 c1150-2 (Link to this contribution) Avoiding any controversy, may I begin with six unquestioned and unquestionable truths? First, it is ...
David Burrowes | 475 c1158 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of safeguards, will the Minister give some of the reassurance that Lord Darzi gave in...
Baroness Primarolo | 475 c1158-9 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to give exactly the same undertakings as Lord Darzi gave in another place. [Interruption....
William Cash | 475 c1158 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister explain the extent to which the research that will be made available will be avail...
Baroness Primarolo | 475 c1158 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman is confusing a regulatory framework that permits research with the c...
Mark Simmonds | 475 c1154-6 (Link to this contribution) Not at the moment. The hon. Gentleman and I will have plenty of time to intervene on each other in t...
Baroness Primarolo | 475 c1156-8 (Link to this contribution) The debate has been excellent and wide ranging, covering many significant matters in the Bill and so...
Evan Harris | 475 c1140 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I agree with everything that the hon. Gentleman just said. I move to the need for a father....
David Amess | 475 c1147-8 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State, in introducing the Bill, described it as ““flagship”” legislation. I can now...
Jim McGovern | 475 c1148 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
David Amess | 475 c1148 (Link to this contribution) I would normally, but I think it would be unfair on the three hon. Members who are looking daggers a...
William Cash | 475 c1148-50 (Link to this contribution) A debate that has not been mentioned before—in fact, there were two—preceded the 1990 Act. It was th...
Alistair Burt | 475 c1142-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to have an opportunity to take part in such an excellent debate, in which many viewpoi...
Evan Harris | 475 c1143 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman kindly warned me that he would cite that, and he knows from our conversation that...
Alistair Burt | 475 c1143-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the clarification. The hon. Gentleman will not be the first colleague not to have ...
Lord Stunell | 475 c1145-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North-East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt). I certainly ...
Gary Streeter | 475 c1107-8 (Link to this contribution) It was one of the arguments that I put forward. I simply do not agree with the hon. Gentleman. The s...
Gary Streeter | 475 c1108 (Link to this contribution) I have already given way a couple of times, and would therefore be breaking into my own time. I know...
Baroness Primarolo | 475 c1106 (Link to this contribution) I can give the hon. Gentleman the answer straight away: the technologies under discussion have exist...
John Bercow | 475 c1107 (Link to this contribution) May I say through you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that I am extremely inclusive of my hon. Friend? I just d...
Patrick Hall | 475 c1104 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has touched on a very important issue. Many people who object to stem cell research s...
Brian Iddon | 475 c1104-6 (Link to this contribution) With today's biological drugs, that has extended to 20 years. However, I do not agree that there hav...
Gary Streeter | 475 c1106 (Link to this contribution) The House has been treated to a rich feast of speeches, demonstrating the diversity of opinion on th...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 475 c1095 (Link to this contribution) It was confusing for those who do not normally look at the amendment paper. People published guides ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 475 c1093-5 (Link to this contribution) As several hon. Members have reminded me, I had the pleasure of moving the Second Reading of the 199...
Dari Taylor | 475 c1092-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely correct, and of course I agree. However, I should take my hon. Friend ...
Ian Gibson | 475 c1092 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has talked about her disappointment about infertility treatments. Does she agree that...
Dari Taylor | 475 c1091-2 (Link to this contribution) The Bill is required. It is almost 20 years since the 1990 Act. The Bill ensures that the regulatory...
Norman Lamb | 475 c1090-1 (Link to this contribution) I hear the hon. Gentleman's point, but I disagree with him. [Interruption.] May I just develop my po...
Norman Lamb | 475 c1089-90 (Link to this contribution) In a moment; let me just develop my argument. As for the focus on what is surely the most important ...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1090 (Link to this contribution) I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that there is no direct relationship between the text of the Bill ...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1089 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Geraldine Smith | 475 c1099-100 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do. With saviour siblings, there is also embryo selection, which is used widely in IVF treatm...
David Burrowes | 475 c1099 (Link to this contribution) I have the pleasure of sitting on the Joint Committee with the hon. Lady. Does she agree that a conc...
Geraldine Smith | 475 c1097-9 (Link to this contribution) I will try to confine my remarks to the three main issues that we have been discussing today: the ne...
Speaker | 475 c1097 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am afraid that the right hon. and learned Gentleman's time is up.
Geraldine Smith | 475 c1099 (Link to this contribution) They have said that they are puzzled as to why such experiments should take place. I sat on the Comm...
Evan Harris | 475 c1099 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has mentioned several people, including Sir Martin Evans, Robin Lovell-Badge and Sir L...
Gerald Howarth | 475 c1095-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for giving way—it means that he gets a bit of extra time, f...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 475 c1096 (Link to this contribution) I commend members of the general public who are interested—as many are—in the matter to study our de...
Judy Mallaber | 475 c1096 (Link to this contribution) Has the right hon. and learned Gentleman read—as I have, with interest—the representations from Cath...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 475 c1096-7 (Link to this contribution) Once we start arguing about when the human personality acquires a soul or when it becomes recognisab...
John Bercow | 475 c1103 (Link to this contribution) I have already given way generously, as my hon. Friend will testify. I hope that he will have the op...
John Bercow | 475 c1102 (Link to this contribution) I can certainly conceive that not everyone who wishes to benefit will do so. If my hon. Friend is en...
William Cash | 475 c1102 (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend extend his argument to make these therapeutic opportunities universal, or does ...
Brian Iddon | 475 c1103-4 (Link to this contribution) I am an enthusiastic supporter of the Bill. If anyone is in any doubt about any of its clauses, I re...
John Bercow | 475 c1100 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Morecambe and Lunesdale (Geraldine Smith), to whose p...
John Pugh | 475 c1101 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that although adult stem cell research is morally unproblematic, ...
John Bercow | 475 c1101-2 (Link to this contribution) The kind of stem cell research that the hon. Gentleman supports might not attract the same level of ...
Alistair Burt | 475 c1100 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend gives as his central motivation the idea that when he can see science leading somewhe...
John Bercow | 475 c1100-1 (Link to this contribution) I shall offer two answers to my hon. Friend, neither of which will satisfy him, but both of which se...
Baroness Primarolo | 475 c1160-1 (Link to this contribution) It will say that one is the mother and the other is the parent, which conveys the legal standard. T...
Speaker | 475 c1161 (Link to this contribution) Order. Hon. Members must let the right hon. Lady speak—[Interruption.] Order.
Baroness Primarolo | 475 c1159-60 (Link to this contribution) I should like to make some progress. The hon. Gentleman will want to return to that issue, and there...
Geraldine Smith | 475 c1160 (Link to this contribution) I want to ask the Minister about birth certificates. Will we reach a position in which two mothers a...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1068 (Link to this contribution) I am not known for my knowledge of good experiments, but I can point out that the same Joint Committ...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 475 c1068 (Link to this contribution) A cytoplasmic hybrid embryo will have just 0.1 per cent. of animal tissue in it, but does the Secret...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1069 (Link to this contribution) We accepted the logic of that argument, which is why the Bill is as it is.
Sally Keeble | 475 c1069 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Alan Johnson | 475 c1067-8 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with the hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mark Pritchard). In terms of what has happened r...
Geraldine Smith | 475 c1068 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware that full hybrids—that is, embryos that are 50 per cent. animal a...
Sally Keeble | 475 c1069 (Link to this contribution) I speak as someone who has been through in vitro fertilisation treatment and written a book on it. D...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1069 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way once more, and then I shall make some progress.
Alan Johnson | 475 c1069 (Link to this contribution) I accept my hon. Friend's point. Thankfully, modern drugs ensure that not so many eggs are produced ...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1064 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right, and I commend him on his part in this; indeed, his Secretary of State a...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1063 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. When Louise Brown, the world's first test-t...
Ian Taylor | 475 c1064 (Link to this contribution) As the Minister who in 1997 authorised the funding of the research that led to the cloning of Dolly ...
Lembit Opik | 475 c1066-7 (Link to this contribution) On the substantive point about medical research, does the Secretary of State recognise that many org...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1066 (Link to this contribution) The Government have no plans to change the abortion laws and regulations. It is up to right hon. and...
Patrick Hall | 475 c1066 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has just outlined the thorough scrutiny, consultation and thought that went int...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1066 (Link to this contribution) We will discuss the programme motion after I have finished moving Second Reading. The purpose of th...
Mark Pritchard | 475 c1067 (Link to this contribution) It is entirely true. Why will the Government not accept that that is the fact? Notwithstanding that ...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1067 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes the most important point about why the research is necessary, and I thank h...
Speaker | 475 c1067 (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions should be brief. They are not an opportunity to make a speech. There are hon. M...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1064 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention, which I believe is helpful: there was an element...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 475 c1064 (Link to this contribution) Is not one of the very important changes from any other consideration that we have given this issue ...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1064-5 (Link to this contribution) I commend the right hon. and learned Gentleman on how that Bill was handled. It would not then have ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 475 c1064 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State says that he likes the way in which the 1990 Act was handled; large parts of ...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 475 c1065 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said that Baroness Warnock had made it clear that there was a perception of f...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1065 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware of any such problem, and I have talked to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Auth...
Marquess of Lothian | 475 c1065 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State says that Third Reading must be whipped. If the contentious issues to which h...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1065 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman and his party have every right to decide how they will vote, just as we hav...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1066 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend gives me a good opportunity to move on and talk about the Bill.
William Cash | 475 c1077 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the work of Professor Shinya Yamanaka, which has apparently been adop...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1076-7 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in that point. My constituency of South Cambridgeshire probably has as many scientis...
Evan Harris | 475 c1076 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raised the interesting question of why the Government changed their mind on human...
Ian Gibson | 475 c1077 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Lansley | 475 c1077 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that it is the responsibility of the Medical Research Council to make judgm...
Mark Pritchard | 475 c1077 (Link to this contribution) Given the scarce resources in the NHS, which both my hon. Friend and the Secretary of State have men...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1077 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may be interested to know that my hon. Friend the Member for Boston and Skegness (Mar...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1078-9 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the figures are, broadly speaking, 60 per cent. for embryonic stem cell research a...
Ian Gibson | 475 c1077-8 (Link to this contribution) On the hon. Gentleman's point about the Medical Research Council, is it not a fact that there is no ...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1077 (Link to this contribution) Of course—how could I refuse the hon. Gentleman?
Lord Lansley | 475 c1079 (Link to this contribution) No. Such a change would not be to discriminate against same-sex couples or single parents, but woul...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1079 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Lady has talked to fertility clinics about this issue, but Bourn Hall...
Emily Thornberry | 475 c1079 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman envisage that the new family unit will somehow be assessed by a doctor when ...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1079-80 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that intervention. He will know that writing legislation i...
Iain Duncan Smith | 475 c1079 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government have got themselves twisted into knots over this issue...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1080-1 (Link to this contribution) No. I want to complete my speech quite quickly because there are many Members waiting to speak. The...
Dari Taylor | 475 c1080 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Lansley | 475 c1081 (Link to this contribution) Let me talk about the study first, then I will happily give way. The authors also report that no ba...
William Cash | 475 c1085 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree with Einstein, who said:"““Science without religion is lame, religion ...
Norman Lamb | 475 c1085 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the right hon. Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron), the Chairman of the Health Com...
Speaker | 475 c1084 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am afraid that the right hon. Gentleman's time is up.
Kevin Barron | 475 c1082-4 (Link to this contribution) May I first tell my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State how pleased I am that the Bill is befor...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1081-2 (Link to this contribution) No, as I am going to conclude. Let me make my point of view clear. I shall support the Second Readi...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1081 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may have gathered from what I said that I am effectively arguing that in circumstance...
Norman Lamb | 475 c1086-7 (Link to this contribution) I would not necessarily agree with that comment—and let me move on. I have an important point to ma...
Nadine Dorries | 475 c1081 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend is aware of other studies—for example, in University College hospital,...
Norman Lamb | 475 c1088-9 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree. I was putting the anxieties of those who are concerned, but the hon. Gentleman i...
Patrick Hall | 475 c1088 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman used the words ““a child created for that purpose””, but the context...
Norman Lamb | 475 c1089 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon tells me that the criteria that the NHS set ...
Geraldine Smith | 475 c1089 (Link to this contribution) What evidence is the hon. Gentleman referring to?
Norman Lamb | 475 c1088 (Link to this contribution) I entirely accept that point and agree with the hon. Gentleman.
Brian Iddon | 475 c1088 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that it is a treatment of last resort, first because it is costly and...
Ian Gibson | 475 c1088 (Link to this contribution) But does the hon. Gentleman agree that in many conditions it is not just a question of simple geneti...
Robert Key | 475 c1087 (Link to this contribution) Is not the most important point about human admixed embryos the fact that they behave like embryos b...
Norman Lamb | 475 c1087-8 (Link to this contribution) The most important issue is that such embryos facilitate research into horrible conditions. Anyone w...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1069-70 (Link to this contribution) Let me try to dispel that fear. Once again, that is a misrepresentation. That course of action would...
Nadine Dorries | 475 c1070 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree with Lord Winston's remarks in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday? He is the Go...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1070 (Link to this contribution) Lord Winston is not the Government adviser on the Bill. He has had his go at that and talked about i...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1070 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way one last time—as I keep saying.
Brian Iddon | 475 c1070 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether my right hon. Friend saw on breakfast television this morning the Whitaker family, ...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1069 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for putting that on the record; he did so more briefly than I expect...
John Robertson | 475 c1069 (Link to this contribution) But does my right hon. Friend also accept that some of us fear that what he describes looks like cre...
Iain Duncan Smith | 475 c1072 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Geraldine Smith | 475 c1072 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Evan Harris | 475 c1071 (Link to this contribution) In answer to the question asked by the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) about the ...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1071-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point; the issue came up time and again in the consultation on...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1071 (Link to this contribution) I am unclear about the basis for the Secretary of State's assertion that same-sex couples or, for th...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1071 (Link to this contribution) If we are considering a Bill—[Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman asked for evidence. We are consideri...
Iain Duncan Smith | 475 c1070 (Link to this contribution) I wish to clarify that, as it is the aspect that I am interested in. The new wording has been introd...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1071 (Link to this contribution) The original legislation was put in place before the House agreed on civil partnerships, and before ...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1070 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. Not only that family but the—thankfully few —families who h...
Andrew Selous | 475 c1075-6 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend comment on the future storing of umbilical cord blood and whether he would like ...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1076 (Link to this contribution) In principle, yes. However, in practice, that route implies considerable resource constraints on the...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1076 (Link to this contribution) Yes. Parents will want to consider the proposal and, if they can meet the resources, I personally b...
Lembit Opik | 475 c1074 (Link to this contribution) On that point, is the hon. Gentleman aware that there is research that could be carried out now—I am...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1074-5 (Link to this contribution) I am aware that there are scientists who rightly want greater clarity in the law, for an entirely un...
David Burrowes | 475 c1075 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend acknowledge that it is important when considering animal-human hybrid research t...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1075 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend and, from reading HFEA minutes, I believe that the HFEA applied that...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1072-3 (Link to this contribution) May I make some progress, please? I have highlighted the elements of the Bill that have attracted t...
Lord Lansley | 475 c1073-4 (Link to this contribution) The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 has been a success. The first legislation of its kin...
Baroness Primarolo | 475 c1161 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is about introducing regulation that takes us into the 21st century. N...
Alan Johnson | 475 c1072 (Link to this contribution) No. I have given way to my hon. Friend twice; I hope that she accepts that I have been generous.
Richard Taylor | 475 c1141-2 (Link to this contribution) May I first record my support for the establishment of a bioethics committee, as has been suggested ...
Gary Streeter | 475 c1107 (Link to this contribution) Greater breakthroughs than we have seen in the past are necessary. Of the three main controversial ...
David Burrowes | 475 c1066 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State talks about providing the opportunity to consider these important ethical iss...
Mark Pritchard | 475 c1067 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Secretary of State accepts that whatever Members' views about the Bill may be, we al...
Desmond Turner | 475 c1126-7 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to be wholeheartedly behind the Bill. It builds on the 1990 Act, which has served us well...
Geraldine Smith | 475 c1065-6 (Link to this contribution) I fully respect the Government's position, but equally they should respect the position of Members w...
Norman Lamb | 475 c1088 (Link to this contribution) I accept that point, too, and I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention.
Jim Devine | 475 c1069 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. Will he place on record the fact that the Bill is not a...
Subjects
Civil partnerships Clones Abortion Blood Fertility Human embryo experiments Diseases Donors Genetics Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority Ethics IVF Discrimination Foetal tissue NHS Medical treatments Screening Religion Sexuality Research Stem cells Christianity Human-animal hybrid embryos
Legislation
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (HL) 2007-08
Link
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