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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]
5:15 pm
Dawn Primarolo (Minister of State (Public Health), Department of Health; Bristol South, Labour)
The provision is a reciprocal arrangement with proposed new section 8B. New section 8E will permit the HFEA to provide services to other public bodies, such as the Human Tissue Authority or the Healthcare Commission, undertaking inspections in the same premises as the HFEA. They might arrange for the HFEA to cover their inspection in the course of the authority’s inspection regime. The HFEA, not the Healthcare Commission or the Human Tissue Authority, would then carry the cost of undertaking the inspection. The provision gives a mechanism for sharing the benefits of reducing the burden to those who are inspected and the cost to the public authorities performing the inspections.