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registered interest false more like this
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Department of Health more like this
answering dept id 17 more like this
answering dept short name Health more like this
answering dept sort name Health more like this
hansard heading Human Embryo Experiments more like this
house id 2 more like this
legislature
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pref label House of Lords more like this
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. more like this
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Lord Alton of Liverpool more like this
uin HL5910 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2016-02-11more like thismore than 2016-02-11
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> more like this
answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton more like this
question first answered
less than 2016-02-11T15:07:15.83Zmore like thismore than 2016-02-11T15:07:15.83Z
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label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton more like this
tabling member
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label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool more like this