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What were the results of the meetings of the International Bioethics Committee, the Council of National Bioethics Committees and the joint meeting between them held this month in Rabat. [HL 4153].

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Lord Kennet (Labour)
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Written questions
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Answered
Date
26 October 1999
Reference
HL 4153; 606 c19WA
House
House of Lords

What publicly appointed bodies in the United Kingdom are currently examining issues of bioethics; how they have been appointed, when and by whom; by whom they are funded and serviced; and to whom they report. [HL 8].

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Lord Kennet (Labour)
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Written questions
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Date
1 December 1998
Reference
595 c24-5WA; HL 8
House
House of Lords

Why HMG seek to appoint to the HFEA only those people who have no "personal convictions" (HC Deb. 14th February 1995, cols. 909-910), concerning the techniques that the HFEA is required to regulate, seeing that those professionals who perform the techniques, and all the others whom they appoint, will hold...

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Lord Kennet (Labour)
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Written questions
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Date
20 March 1995
Reference
562 c57WA
House
House of Lords

Lords debate on motion to call attention to threats posed and benefits offered to humankind by human genetic manipulation and assisted procreation.

Lead member
Lord Kennet
Answering member
Baroness Jay of Paddington
Department
Department of Health
Type
Parliamentary proceedings
Date
11 May 1994
Reference
554 c1595-624
House
House of Lords

Whether HMG will list the membership of the Ethics Committee dealing with experiments and involving humans at the Chemical & Biological Defence Establishment at Porton Down. - Text of letter from Dr Graham Pearson of the Chemical & Biological Defence Establishment.

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Lord Kennet (Labour)
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Written questions
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Date
7 February 1994
Reference
551 c115-6WA
House
House of Lords

Whether procedure used in case of a baby recently born at King's College Hospital, London, which involved 25 transfusions into her abdominal cavity while she was in the womb, were approved by relevant Research Ethics Committee & if so on what grounds.

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Lord Kennet (Labour)
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Written questions
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Date
3 February 1992
Reference
535 c4WA
House
House of Lords

Whether, given the regularity of over 90% average failure rate of IVF/ET procedures carried out in clinics hitherto licensed by the interim licensing authority, HMG are convinced that these procedures, despite being approved by "local ethical committees" & no longer regarded by British medical profession as experimental, are in full...

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Lord Kennet (Labour)
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Written questions
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Answered
Date
12 December 1991
Reference
533 c40WA
House
House of Lords

Whether it is HMG view that patients can develop "informed consent" to IVF/ET procedures, if information about the "success rate" (in terms of take-home babies) of licensed clinics is withheld from them & their medical advisers on grounds of commercial confidentiality; & whether this is in keeping with the established...

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Lord Kennet (Labour)
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Written questions
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Answered
Date
12 December 1991
Reference
533 c40WA
House
House of Lords

Whether, it is permissible under British law for researchers to implant human fetal tissue into animals; whether human fetal tissue is currently exported to US where such implantations are taking place (Report in International Herald Tribune, 31st Oct 1990), & whether this possibility is explained to mothers who are persuaded...

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Lord Kennet (Labour)
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Written questions
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Answered
Date
20 December 1990
Reference
524 c62WA
House
House of Lords
If HMG have accepted Polkinghorne report, including Section 8, which implies that patients ought to waive property rights in cell lines cultivated from their cells & if so on what grounds & in whom such property rights are in future to vest.
Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Date
11 December 1989
Reference
513 c1203-4
House
House of Lords