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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2014,
Official Report, column 42W, on In vitro fertilisation, (a) what the evidential basis
is for his statement that no genomic DNA is found in the mitochondria but only in
the cell nucleus, (b) what account he took of the data on the human genome available
in the ENSEMBL and OMIM databases in preparing that statement and (c) what genetic
modifications applied to the eggs or embryos would prevent any nuclear DNA from the
eggs or embryo donor being inherited by the resulting child.
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