Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Statement by Earl Howe on 24 November (WS 101–2), whether it is customary for the holder of a licence from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to present unpublished data generated primarily by a separate research group at a meeting for which the minutes were previously published on the HFEA website; whether permission from any separate research groups for unpublished data to be presented in this way was disclosed to members of the HFEA; and which were the licensed centres making representations at the relevant meeting of the Authority’s Research Licence Committee on 14 September 2006.
Answer
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that the noble Lord has examined the minutes of the Research Licence Committee that met on 14 September 2006. The HFEA has also advised that it has no further comment to offer on the conduct of that meeting.