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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 (3 Jun 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 7 June 2007 (WA 203—4) and by Lord Darzi of Denham on 18 May (WA 250—1), whether the requirements of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as subsequently amended) permit the use of cloning for therapeutic purposes where this does not involve the derivation of stem cells, such...

Coroners and Justice Bill: Second Reading (18 May 2009)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...lecture in Liverpool given by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court. He emphasised the need for jurisdictions like our own to strengthen our domestic provisions in hunting down the perpetrators of genocide and crimes against humanity. This Bill gives us the chance to accede to that request and to ensure that we are no safe haven for those who would avoid...

India — Debate (18 Dec 2008)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...soft targets are likely. Their purpose, of course, is to spread fear, to disrupt, and to assert a violent ideology. The visceral nature of that ideology can be seen in the decision by the terrorists to hunt down a rabbi and a small group of Jews in Mumbai's Nariman House. It can be seen in the terrorists' decision at the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel to look specifically for American...

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (29 Oct 2008)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...this principle. The only way in which such a debate could occur is if your Lordships agree Amendment No. 2A. At earlier stages of our debates on this issue, the issue was often referred to as the "Hunt test". It gained that description from some words used by the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, in our debates on whether we should allow the creation of embryonic stem cells for the purposes of...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (2 Jun 2008)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answers by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 7 June 2007 (WA 203—04) and 19 June 2007 (WA 39), what safety measures or other criteria would be used to assess whether an embryo that has been through a process designed to prevent the transmission of serious mitochondrial disease would be included within the category of permitted embryos;...

Interfaith Dialogue (1 May 2008)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...did not conform. Scores of young men—brilliant academics such as Edmund Campion, Robert Southwell and John Gerard—slipped out of the country and returned as Catholic priests, often hunted down, arrested, tortured and put to death. Campion was ultimately tried here in the Great Hall before being taken to the Tower of London and then to Tyburn, today's Marble Arch, where he was...

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (4 Feb 2008)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: ..., true hybrids and various interspecies entities, for which there is no current scientific demand or scientific consensus as to their necessity. Therefore the clear safeguards, provided by the Hunt test, are essential to ensure that all such research has a sound scientific basis and can proceed only where it has been demonstrated that no alternatives exist. I hope that this amendment will...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (22 Jan 2008)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 14 May 2007 (WA 3—4) regarding prohibitions against culturing embryos for more than 14 days in vitro, why the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is currently considering whether the culture of whole embryos to form outgrowths complies with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990.

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (15 Jan 2008)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...a licence application were made—as the noble Lord himself has had to do in the past. If this amendment were carried, there would be a requirement to take seriously what the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, said to us back in 2001; that human embryos should not be used in circumstances where it could be demonstrated that alternatives were available. Whether or not your Lordships have been...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (7 Jan 2008)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 28 June (WA 160), whether any data on human embryos created using cell nuclear replacement has been made available to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority by research centres; and, if so, how many embryos have been created by those centres.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (17 Dec 2007)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 28 June (WA 159), whether they now have more up-to-date information on in vitro fertilisation treatment cycles and human embryos created since 1991, and the number of children born using human embryos created since 1991; and what percentage of non-frozen and frozen embryos created since 1991 have...

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (10 Dec 2007)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...figure of 82,955 was mentioned, but that is in connection with the number of embryos donated for research. The figures are in a parliamentary reply given to me on 28 June by the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, at col. WA 159. The number of embryos created involving fresh, non-frozen embryos is 1,940,576, with just 3.4 per cent resulting in live births from a total of 66,715...

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (3 Dec 2007)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: This amendment would not prevent that. The noble Lord and I disagree about whether human embryos should be used, but this amendment says let us take the Hunt test at its word. If the noble Lord were able to put the case he has just been putting to the regulatory authority, despite the dislike of the regulations he expressed at Second Reading, presumably under the Hunt test formula if no other...

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (3 Dec 2007)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...embryos if alternatives exist. That has come out in the amendment tabled by the noble Earl, which is in some respect a paving amendment for the next group of amendments concerning the so-called Hunt test—the words that the Minister used in 2000 that if alternatives exist, it would not be right to use human embryos. As an undercurrent to the debate in the Committee today, we have...

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (3 Dec 2007)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...a minor point, because this is only a consequential amendment; the real issue is contained in Amendments Nos. 44 and 46. I return to an issue that I raised on Second Reading: what I then dubbed the Hunt test, which I hope will be incorporated into the granting of all licences. In the debate in your Lordships' House in 2001, the then Minister, the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, said that, "the 1990...

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (3 Dec 2007)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...extra embryonic tissue. I invite the Committee to contrast those remarks with those of the noble Baroness, Lady Royall of Blaisdon, and also with those previously made by the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath. He stated that an animal embryo altered for an experimental or other scientific purpose by the introduction of one or more human cells will be governed by the provisions of the...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (29 Nov 2007)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answers by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 28 June (WA 157—8), Baroness Royall of Blaisdon on 12 July (WA 240—1) and Lord Darzi of Denham on 23 October (WA 101), whether the reference under the proposed Section 4A(5)(e) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as proposed to be inserted under Clause 4(2) of the Human...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Embryology (29 Nov 2007)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answers by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 8 May (WA 248), how much government funding has been allocated towards research into direct reprogramming of differentiated cells to a pluripotent state without the creation of embryos, in the light of findings reported in the journal Cell on 25 August 2006 (126:663-676), in the journal Nature on 19...

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (19 Nov 2007)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: .... This allows for the creation of a middle ground in the debate. Ethically uncontroversial stem cell techniques are where the future lies. In the House of Lords debate in 2001, the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, the then government Minister, said that, "the 1990 Act already provides the answer to the question of what happens if and when research into adult cells overtakes research using embryos:...