Question
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Lord Darzi of Denham on 21 April 2008 (WA 234) and 12 January 2009 (WA 96–97), whether the ““broad range of available evidence”” considered by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) only included one published study but excluded the six papers referred to in Lord Alton of Liverpool's letter to the HFEA on 6 November 2008 and excluded data published in the journals Stem Cells (Volume 23, No. 6, pages 805–816) and Biology of Reproduction (Volume 55, No. 2, pages 254–259).
Answer
It is a matter for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to determine specifically which pieces of available evidence it considers, as part of the statutory duty placed on it by subsection (8)(a) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990.