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Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (12 Nov 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Drayson on 4 November (WA 59—60) regarding the extension of the research project entitled Improving the efficiency of human somatic cell nuclear transfer, whether the Medical Research Council (MRC) acts in accordance with the remarks by Lord Darzi of Denham on 29 October 2008 at col 1615 that it "would be a...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (10 Nov 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Baroness Thornton on 28 October (WA 150—51), whether it is a legal requirement that re-consent procedures should be in place where insufficient information is available to ascertain whether an individual would have objected to the use of their cells to bring about the creation in vitro of an embryo or human admixed embryo...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (10 Nov 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Baroness Thornton on 27 October (WA 124) and 2 November (WA 7) stating that research licence applications and renewals are assessed in light of available scientific evidence, why records of relevant scientific publications are not maintained by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (9 Nov 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Lord Darzi of Denham on 3 June (WA 88—89) and by Baroness Thornton on 27 October (WA 124), whether the numbers of human gametes and embryos used in research are monitored by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in order to ensure that the proposed use still fulfils the criteria of the research licence upon...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (9 Nov 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Thornton on 27 October (WA 124), why the Answer stated that a total figure of only 36 human oocytes were used between 11 August 2004 and 3 July 2005 under research licence R0152 when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority indicated in response to a Freedom of Information request (F-2005-00134, cited in...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (9 Nov 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Thornton on 28 October (WA 151), whether UK Biobank does not expect to receive any applications to use the samples it holds to create cloned human embryos or human admixed embryos because it would not fall within the scope of improving the health of future generations.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (9 Nov 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Baroness Thornton on 28 October (WA 150—51), whether tissue banks providing material for research are required to use contact information at their disposal in order to ensure that researchers can fulfil the requirements of paragraph 21(4) of Schedule 3 to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Uganda: Lord's Resistance Army (5 Nov 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the funding of and provision of arms to the Lord's Resistance Army.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (4 Nov 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Lord Young of Norwood Green on 22 October (WA 89—90), which future projects involving provision of eggs to research in exchange for payment of in vitro fertilisation treatment costs are expected to benefit from a study of participants' experiences.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (4 Nov 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Lord Drayson on 5 May (WA 95—96) and by Lord Young of Norwood Green on 22 October (WA 89—90), how the views, values and experiences of other women who provide eggs for research will continue to be studied until April 2011 if the project to which their eggs will be donated is due to terminate towards the end of 2009.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (4 Nov 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Lord Young of Norwood Green on 22 October (WA 89—90), whether it is standard practice for social science studies to be funded by the Medical Research Council instead of the Economic and Social Research Council; and how the social science study concerned can be demonstrated to be independent of research funded by the same...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (2 Nov 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 26 June 2007 (WA 129-30), what consideration the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has given to findings reported in the journal Nature on 17 September 2009 (volume 461, issue 7262, pages 367-372) with regard to the renewal of research licence R0153; and, in particular, how the HFEA...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (2 Nov 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Lord Triesman on 29 October 2007 (WA 144) and by Lord Darzi of Denham on 10 January 2008 (WA 216) and 18 June 2009 (WA 226), at what point the Newcastle Primary Care Trust switched to offering three cycles of in vitro fertilisation to eligible patients instead of one treatment cycle; and what is known about the impact of this...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (28 Oct 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Darzi of Denham on 8 May 2008 (WA 89—90), what information is provided to women who provide eggs that will be used in cloning research regarding the purposes of the research (as distinct from risks of ovarian hyperstimulation); whether specific consent is always obtained for that purpose; and whether the same...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (28 Oct 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the remarks by Baroness Royall of Blaisdon on 21 January 2008 (Official Report, House of Lords, col. 46—47), what steps have been taken by UK Biobank to re-consent its participants regarding the creation of cloned human embryos and human admixed embryos where it is not considered by the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council to be clearly...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (28 Oct 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they propose to make it a requirement of allowing research on embryonic stem cells that the specific consent of the donor has been given; and whether they will prevent the use of previously donated cells where there is good reason to believe that the donor would have specifically objected to their use in embryonic stem cell research.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (27 Oct 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Lord Darzi of Denham on 16 October 2008 (WA 67—68) and Lord Drayson on 5 May 2009 (WA 95—96), what advances have been made in improving the efficiency of somatic cell nuclear transfer with human oocytes, where those advances have been published; and how many fresh or failed-to-fertilise human oocytes have been used...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (22 Oct 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Drayson on 5 May (WA 95—96), whether it remains the case that the provision of financial inducements persuading women to provide eggs for research at Newcastle should not establish a precedent for other cases, as stated in a press statement from the Medical Research Council on 13 September 2007.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (22 Oct 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Triesman on 29 October 2007 (WA 144), what were the conclusions of the previously funded investigation into the experiences of potential in vitro fertilisation patients providing eggs for cloning; and how the findings of that study were used to inform subsequent revision of patient information and consent forms.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (21 Jul 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Darzi of Denham on 6 July (WA 100-1), which report of an inspection by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) covers the work described in the poster by Dr Daniel Brison, Dr Susan Kimber and Dr Maria Camarasa that was presented to the HFEA's Scientific and Clinical Advances Group on 14 June 2007; and where...