Schedule 6
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]
10:00 am
Dawn Primarolo (Minister of State (Public Health), Department of Health; Bristol South, Labour)
With respect, the quote that the hon. Gentleman attributes to me, in which I used the word “symbolic” in relation to birth certificates, was not a general statement. I was speaking—following on from the 2003 Act—about specific circumstances in which the father or parent is deceased. I was not making a general point about the symbolism or otherwise of entries on the birth certificate. The hon. Gentleman should not take the specific for the general and assume that it reads across, because it does not.