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date	17/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Embryos
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether human embryos have any rights or protections enshrined in United Kingdom or international law; and if so, what is the extent of those rights or protections.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL5797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, as amended, places a number of prohibitions on the use of human embryos in assisted reproduction and research.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 26/03/2015 12:41:37 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

225771

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 25 February (HL4988), why they have not signed or ratified the Council of Europe's Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine; and whether they intend to do so.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL5536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The Council of Europe Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine covers a very wide range of complex ethical and legal issues. These issues involve a large number of different policy areas which are covered by a mixture of United Kingdom legislation and common law and some of the relevant policy areas are within the competence of the devolved administrations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In common with a number of other European Union states, the UK has not signed or ratified the Convention.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 23/03/2015 13:53:09 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

179250

registered interest
date	11/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	IVF
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which European Union legislation they have considered in framing the proposed draft Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015; what view they have taken on the applicability of the European Union legislation; and what is the basis for their view.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL4987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>As I said in the debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015 on 24 February 2015 (columns 1570 and 1617-8) the Government is satisfied that the Regulations do not contravene any aspect of European Union law. It has carefully considered recent arguments relating to the Clinical Trials Directive (Directive 2001/20/EC) but is satisfied that the Directive is not relevant in this context as it relates to clinical trials of medicines.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 25/02/2015 15:10:51 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

179251

registered interest
date	11/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they consider that the principles and prohibitions regarding eugenic practices in the Council of Europe Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine form part of the constitutional traditions common to member states of the European Union.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL4988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>The United Kingdom has not signed or ratified the Council of Europe’s Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 25/02/2015 13:34:35 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten