Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 8 March 2011 (WA 389-90), whether it remains the case that no changes to the research programme at centre 0017 have taken place subsequent to the Person Responsible and the Nominal Licencee having stated that no such changes were envisaged when writing to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in September 2009; and, if not, what were the changes concerned.[HL1112]
Answer
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that in April 2010 the Person Responsible, for research licence R0152, applied to further vary the research licence to create embryos using donated sperm. The Authority's Research Licence Committee considered this application at its meeting on 19 May 2010. The decision of the Committee was recorded in the minutes which are available on the Authority's website at:
http://guide.hfea.gov.uk/guide/ShowPDF.aspx? ID=4180.