Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Statement by Earl Howe on 24 November (WS 101–2), which individuals either currently or recently employed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority were also present at the relevant meeting of the authority’s Research Licence Committee on 14 September 2006; and which of these individuals have assisted in responding to requests for information.
Answer
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that the members of staff present at the Research Licence Committee meeting on 14 September 2006 were identified in the minutes that the noble Lord has previously examined. The HFEA has also advised that it has no further comment to offer on the conduct of that meeting. The HFEA has further advised that it does not comment on the involvement of individual members of staff in the course of the normal discharge of their duties on behalf of the authority.