Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Earl Howe on 1 July (WA 296) and on 19 July (WA 164), how donated sperm fulfils the principal purposes of Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority research licence R0152.
Answer
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s (HFEA) research licence committee makes its decisions based on the merit of each individual application, taking all evidence provided into account. The HFEA has advised that it does not comment on the feasibility of proposed treatments. The HFEA has advised that its research licence committee decided in considering the initial application for research licence R0152 that the research is ““necessary or desirable”” as required by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990.