Question
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Lord Darzi of Denham on 21 April 2008 (WA 233–34) and 9 March (WA 204–5), why a relationship between extra-embryonic and embryonic tissue is considered by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to be pivotal to the definition of an embryo grown for more than 14 days when a cloned embryo that lacks the potential to form extra-embryonic tissue is considered as an embryo within the HFEA's regulatory remit.
Answer
I refer the noble Lord to the Answer I gave on 10 February 2009 (WA 176). I have nothing further to add to that Answer.