Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 18 June (WA 33), why the minutes of the meeting of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s Research Licence Committee on 18 November 2009 are not available on the Authority’s website as indicated, and how that compares to documents from previous and subsequent years.[HL1110]
Answer
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that the minutes of the meeting of the Authority's Research Licence Committee on 18 November 2009, to which the noble Lord refers, were not available between 14 and 25 June 2013 because of a technical issue with the HFEA's website.
The HFEA has also advised that it seeks to ensure that minutes of Research Licence Committee meetings, and other Authority licensing decisions, are available on the HFEA website within eight working days of the meeting taking place.