asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether, in the light of the oral evidence given to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee by the chief executive of the Medical Research Council on 5 February 2007 (HC 272–1 (Q249)), expressing doubt about support for the use of human oocytes for somatic nuclear...

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether, in the light of the oral evidence given to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee by the chief executive of the Medical Research Council on 5 February 2007 (HC 272–1 (Q249)), expressing doubt about support for the use of human oocytes for somatic nuclear...

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answers by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 6 February (WA 118-19), 17 April (WA 42-43) and 18 June (WA 9-10) regarding the use of human embryos in basic research, how they will enforce paragraph 11 of the Declaration of Helsinki and paragraphs...

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answers by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 6 February (WA 118-19), 17 April (WA 42-43) and 18 June (WA 9-10) regarding the use of human embryos in basic research, how they will enforce paragraph 11 of the Declaration of Helsinki and paragraphs...

asked Her Majesty's Government:What assessment they have made of the decision of South Korea's ministry of health and welfare to prohibit the transfer of somatic cell nuclei from animals into enucleated human eggs and to further restrict the types of eggs that can be used for cloning to immature or...

asked Her Majesty's Government:What assessment they have made of the decision of South Korea's ministry of health and welfare to prohibit the transfer of somatic cell nuclei from animals into enucleated human eggs and to further restrict the types of eggs that can be used for cloning to immature or...

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they have taken steps to ensure that the conduct formerly associated with Woo-Suk Hwang in South Korea remains unique to that country; and how they ensure that all research licensed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority conforms to World Medical Association standards as set out...

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they have taken steps to ensure that the conduct formerly associated with Woo-Suk Hwang in South Korea remains unique to that country; and how they ensure that all research licensed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority conforms to World Medical Association standards as set out...

asked Her Majesty's Government:Why the Medical Research Council's provision of financial incentives to partake in the use of human oocytes for somatic nuclear transfer has taken precedence over implementation of the February 2004 National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines regarding National Health Service provision of three in vitro...

asked Her Majesty's Government:Why the Medical Research Council's provision of financial incentives to partake in the use of human oocytes for somatic nuclear transfer has taken precedence over implementation of the February 2004 National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines regarding National Health Service provision of three in vitro...

Further to the Written Answers by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 26 June (WA 129-30) and Baroness Royall of Blaisdon on 11 July (WA 222-23), whether they will provide a fuller account of the reasoningemployed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in granting licence R0153; and in what...

Further to the Written Answers by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 26 June (WA 129-30) and Baroness Royall of Blaisdon on 11 July (WA 222-23), whether they will provide a fuller account of the reasoningemployed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in granting licence R0153; and in what...

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 26 June (WA 129-30), what assessment they have made of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee's report on Government proposals for the regulation of hybrid and chimera embryos (HC 272), in particular, whether...

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 26 June (WA 129-30), what assessment they have made of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee's report on Government proposals for the regulation of hybrid and chimera embryos (HC 272), in particular, whether...

Further to the Written Answer by Baroness Royall of Blaisdon on 11 July (WA 222-23), whether the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is required only to consider research purposes; and whether it is able to license activities which are explicitly prohibited by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990; and

Further to the Written Answer by Baroness Royall of Blaisdon on 11 July (WA 222-23), whether the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is required only to consider research purposes; and whether it is able to license activities which are explicitly prohibited by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990; and

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 26 June (WA 129-30), whether definitions in the Human Tissue and Embryos (Draft) Bill only apply in the context of that Bill; whether they apply to either the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 or...

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 26 June (WA 129-30), whether definitions in the Human Tissue and Embryos (Draft) Bill only apply in the context of that Bill; whether they apply to either the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 or...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he has received objecting to the draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill; and what objections have been made in those representations.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he has received objecting to the draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill; and what objections have been made in those representations.

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 25 June (WA 101-2), whether they have assessed the appropriateness of inter-species tetraploid complementation experiments regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, bearing in mind that tetraploid complementation is an established procedure for deriving whole mice from...

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 25 June (WA 101-2), whether they have assessed the appropriateness of inter-species tetraploid complementation experiments regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, bearing in mind that tetraploid complementation is an established procedure for deriving whole mice from...

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 25 June (WA 101-2), whether the Human Tissue and Embryos (Draft) Bill contains any prohibition against performing inter-species tetraploid complementation; and

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 25 June (WA 101-2), whether the Human Tissue and Embryos (Draft) Bill contains any prohibition against performing inter-species tetraploid complementation; and

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 25 June (WA 101-2), whether they have assessed the appropriateness of a potential route to human reproductive cloning in the form of a legally permissible regulated procedure under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in the event that...

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 25 June (WA 101-2), whether they have assessed the appropriateness of a potential route to human reproductive cloning in the form of a legally permissible regulated procedure under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in the event that...

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 25 June (WA 101-2), whether they have assessed the appropriateness of inter-species tetraploid complementation experiments regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, bearing in mind that tetraploid complementation is an established procedure for deriving whole mice from...

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 25 June (WA 101-2), whether they have assessed the appropriateness of inter-species tetraploid complementation experiments regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, bearing in mind that tetraploid complementation is an established procedure for deriving whole mice from...

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 25 June (WA 101-2) on the Human Tissue and Embryos (Draft) Bill, whether they have assessed the possibility of a regulated procedure under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 involving the injection of human embryonic stem cells into...

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 25 June (WA 101-2) on the Human Tissue and Embryos (Draft) Bill, whether they have assessed the possibility of a regulated procedure under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 involving the injection of human embryonic stem cells into...

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answers by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 22 January (WA 204) and 26 June (WA 129-30), whether the remit of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority extends to the responsibility for licensing human embryo research which is prohibited by the Human Fertilisation...

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answers by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 22 January (WA 204) and 26 June (WA 129-30), whether the remit of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority extends to the responsibility for licensing human embryo research which is prohibited by the Human Fertilisation...

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 22 January (WA 129–30), why data on the number of embryos created using cell nuclear replacement (cloning) as part of a research project are not routinely collected by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, regardless...

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 22 January (WA 129–30), why data on the number of embryos created using cell nuclear replacement (cloning) as part of a research project are not routinely collected by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, regardless...