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	date	27/11/2014
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Burma
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of reports of systematic sexual violence against women in Burma, as documented by the Women’s League of Burma in their recent report; and what action they plan to take under their Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative to help prevent further violence and to bring the perpetrators of sexual violence to justice.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL3229
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text We are aware of the reports, not least the most recent one from the Women’s League of Burma, alleging sexual violence on Commander during his visit to Burma in January. In October the Minister of State for the Department of International Development, my right hon. Friend the Member for New Forest West (Mr Swayne), took up the issue when he met with Burma’s Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement. The UK has allocated over £300,000 to projects supporting the prevention of sexual violence in Burma. Prevention of sexual violence in conflict is also a key element of our defence the part of the Burmese army. These are extremely concerning and we continue to press the Burmese military and government to hold perpetrators to account. The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for East Devon (Mr Swire), raised this issue directly with the Commander in Chief of the Burmese military and the Northern engagement with Burma and is included, along with the importance of human rights and the rule of law, in any education courses we deliver to the military in Burma. answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 04/12/2014 16:08:57 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

164497

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	date	24/11/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Stem Cells
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the mitochondrial diseases listed in Annex D of the Mitochondrial Donation consultation document, February 2014, include degenerative neurological conditions; whether the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has received any suggestions from either research licence holders or nominal licensees that stem cells derived by somatic cell nuclear transfer "are likely to carry very low levels of mtDNA mutation and are therefore likely to be suitable for therapeutic use" to "treat degenerative disease caused by mtDNA mutations" as described in Scientific Reports (DOI: 10.1038/srep03844); and what assessment they have made of the feasibility of treating neurological conditions associated with mitochondrial disease in this way in light of findings recently reported in the journal Cell Stem Cell (DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2014.11.003) and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (Volume 111, no. 26, pages 9633–38).
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL3090
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>We are advised that all conditions listed in Annex D of the mitochondrial donation consultation document ultimately lead to progressive degenerative neurological conditions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that one of the research projects it licenses is investigating the use of embryonic stem cells “to improve the outcome of infertility treatments, and to make progress towards the wider application of IVF-based techniques to help prevent and treat degenerative disease”. The latest interim inspection report relating to this project can be found on the HFEA’s website at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://guide.hfea.gov.uk/guide/InspectionReport.aspx?code=17&amp;s=l&amp;&amp;nav=3" target="_blank">http://guide.hfea.gov.uk/guide/InspectionReport.aspx?code=17&amp;s=l&amp;&amp;nav=3</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The HFEA has also advised that it has not made the assessment stated by the noble Lord in respect of the two journal articles.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 04/12/2014 15:58:39 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool