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date	04/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Human Embryo Experiments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 27 January (HL5039), what specific recommendations the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has made in order to resolve any conflict between the demands of research and the best interests of patients, in particular regarding (1) a demand for sufficient numbers of human embryos at the single-celled zygote stage in order successfully to perform genome editing by means of CRISPR-Cas9, and (2) the usual practice of transferring embryos to the uterus after assessing their potential to develop further after either two to three days or five to six days.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL5909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that it requires, through its Code of Practice, that embryo donors will be recruited in a manner compliant with standard licence conditions. These conditions prevent conflict between the demands of research and the best interests of patients.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 12/02/2016 08:28:20 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

450609

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Human Embryo Experiments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 27 January (HL5039), whether the recently approved application by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to perform genome editing in human embryos by means of CRISPR-Cas9 will be performed on embryos specifically created for research or only on those considered to be surplus to infertility treatments; whether that research application included any application for the creation of embryos; and if not, why the person responsible requested that reference to surplus embryos should be removed from the research project title.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL5910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that this research project will make use of donated embryos that were originally created for treatment purposes. An application was not made to create embryos for the purposes of this research project.</p><p> </p><p>The removal of ‘surplus’ from the title does not reflect a change in the way embryos will be donated to the research.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/02/2016 15:07:15 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

450610

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Human Embryo Experiments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 27 January (HL5039), what evidence the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has received that a major cause of miscarriage is the failure of embryos to develop to the blastocyst stage; what records they hold regarding miscarriages occurring after human embryos that were known to be unable to develop further in vitro had been deliberately transferred to the uterus of a patient; and what sanctions are imposed on clinics in which such implantations take place.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL5911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has not received any such evidence. With regards the role of the HFEA in granting a research licence, its role is to ensure that any project fulfils one of the purposed set out below:</p><p> </p><p>- Increasing knowledge about serious disease or other serious conditions.</p><p>- Developing treatments for serious diseases or other serious medical conditions.</p><p>- Increasing knowledge about the causes of congenital diseases.</p><p>- Promoting the advances in the treatment of infertility.</p><p>- Increasing knowledge about the causes of miscarriages.</p><p>- Developing more efficient techniques of contraception.</p><p>- Developing methods for detecting gene, chromosome or mitochondrion abnormalities in embryos before implantation.</p><p>- Increasing knowledge about the development of embryos.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 12/02/2016 13:23:38 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool