Lord Dobbs – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Dobbs on 2016-02-08.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many statutory instruments were laid before Parliament in each session since the 1997 General Election.
Lord Prior of Brampton
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) publishes on its website the inspection report relating to a licence renewal application and the minutes of the Licence Committee’s decision. It does not publish other information associated with a licence application.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as amended) permits the genetic modification of embryos in research, subject to an HFEA licence. As the regulator, the HFEA’s responsibility is to apply the test in the legislation, namely that the research is necessary or desirable for any of the purposes specified in the Act and that the use of embryos is necessary. The Licence Committee has added a condition to the licence that no research using genome editing may take place until it has received approval from an NHS Research Ethics Committee.
