Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015

My Lords, first, I have to say that I am in favour of mitochondrial donation. I am not opposed to...

I am grateful to my noble friend for giving way. Does he accept that the Wellcome Trust has publi...

The Wellcome Trust has certainly done that but I was referring at that moment to the ministry and...

My Lords—

I assume the noble Lord would like to move his amendment.

I beg to move.

My Lords, I am sorry for rushing in, but the noble Lord, Lord Deben, excited me so much with the ...

Would the noble Lord comment on the HFEA’s recommendation that, as available data are limited, an...

The data that the report suggested were not available were actually presented to the committee. T...

I wonder whether I can help my noble friend Lord Patel. Does he agree with me that there were ver...

I thank my noble friend for that interruption. It was worse than that: it was suggested not only ...

Dangerous.

“Dangerous”, my noble friend says. It killed the other two and resulted in a premature birth. The...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to be able to follow the noble Lord, Lord Patel. I am also grat...

My Lords, for those among us—and I include myself—who are not scientists, this is a demanding top...

My Lords, I must declare an interest in that much of the groundbreaking science of mitochondrial ...

My Lords, I very much support the Motion that has been tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Deben, for ...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way, but I do not think that she speaks from exper...

I thank the noble Lord for that intervention. However, the research shows that there is a shortag...

I thank the noble Baroness for giving way. It is important to clarify that point, particularly as...

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention. It remains the case that there is a shortage of dona...

I am sorry to interrupt my noble friend, but, given that my noble friend Lord Patel mentioned thi...

I thank the noble Lord for that intervention. I am not arguing against this process; I am arguing...

My Lords, I declare an interest in that it was my scientific group which started pre-implantation...

My Lords, before my noble friend goes any further, I say to him that there are real differences i...

I am very grateful to my noble and learned friend for that.

I want to do something which I ...

My Lords, the noble Lord and I agree on much of what he has been saying today. However, in 2013—j...

May I comment on that, since the noble Lord refers to me?

I did actually ask the noble Lord, Lord Winston.

I think that the noble Lord was asking him to reply to my comment. He is quite right that China h...

I am very concerned that the noble Lord, Lord Patel, might get into trouble with the Whip sitting...

My Lords, at the outset, I have to declare two interests. First, I am the honorary life president...

My Lords, this has been an extraordinary debate. We have had a feast from the best in the medical...

I am very grateful to the noble and learned Baroness for giving way. Can she explain to the House...

My Lords, the issues in relation to how the charter impacts upon the legislation that we are disc...

Does the noble and learned Baroness also agree that until the regulations are made, the matter ca...

My Lords, there are two steps. I would argue that the first step is that if a Select Committee is...

Does the noble and learned Baroness agree that if the regulations were agreed today, and therefor...

The real issue is whether we are going to abrogate our own responsibility. Is this something whic...

My Lords, one of the bases of my noble friend Lord Deben’s amendment to the Motion is this questi...

Can I just help the noble and learned Lord by saying that the thing that concerns me is Article 6...

So far as I have understood the European treaties, they do not confer an authority as yet to inte...

My Lords, I take a rather different view from some of my eminent medical colleagues. I have worke...

May I ask the noble Baroness what experiments she would propose to determine that the children bo...

My Lords, I do not think that intervention is very helpful as it is not relevant to the point I a...

The noble Baroness made the point that heteroplasmy, and therefore the carryover of the diseased ...

Again, I do not think that is the point that I am trying to make. Maybe I am not being quite clea...

Would the noble Baroness not agree that there is only one absolutely safe way to ensure that this...

That is a good point.

Supporters of the techniques simplify the impact of these proposed pr...

My Lords, we have heard from legal and medical experts. I am happy to say that I am not an academ...

In Oldham.

In Oldham—quite right. From that one invention, nearly 5 million children have been born who othe...

The noble Lord seems to be saying that there is no difference between IVF and the mitochondrial p...

I take the noble Lord’s point. If I wanted to, I could explain why this is not an issue. One poin...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. Before he moves on, I want to speak to his point about adoption....

It was made very clear by the noble Lord, Lord Patel, and others that the need for the two techni...

My Lords, I come to this debate without any expert legal or medical experience or perspective. As...

My Lords—

My Lords—

My Lords—

My Lords, it is a rule of this House that only one person speaks at one time. I ask noble Lords t...

My Lords, I am grateful to the House. Although of course I have ethical objections to the regulat...

So it should.

Yes, and so it should, as the noble Baroness says. However, why are they not being taken together...

As a point of fact—and I hope that the government Chief Whip will agree with me—we would have deb...

I am glad to hear what the noble Baroness, Lady Farrington, has said to us today. It is important...

Clearly, I am not going to get to speak this evening, so I ask the noble Lord a very simple quest...

I serve on my own university’s ethics committee, which looks at the use of animals in experiments...

My Lords, since 1990, this Parliament, and, in particular, this House, has shown the rest of the ...

My Lords, I sense that the House wants to come to a decision.

Just over 14 years ago, I ask...

My Lords—

My Lords, before the noble Earl starts his speech, may I apologise to the House? The noble Lord, ...

It would be right to say that the Lord Chancellor is not a Law Officer of the Crown.

My Lords, that is why, having been told that it was the two Law Officers, I came to the conclusio...

My Lords, as I fully expected, this has been a debate of very high quality, with a range of views...

Is the noble Earl equally confident that the regulations are compliant with the European directiv...

My Lords, I think I can make an unequivocal statement that all the legal advice I have received i...

In the context of the horizontal articles of the charter, Articles 51 and 52, have the Government...

I can only say again that the legal advice I have had is that the charter cuts in only when there...

Before my noble friend leaves the question of risk, may I ask him to close a little chink in the ...

My Lords, I can confirm to my noble friend, and to the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, who asked a similar...

My Lords, if ever anyone questions the value of this House, this evening proves it. It has been a...

Before the noble Lord does that, I wonder whether he would consider this point very seriously for...

I do not want to prolong this but the fact is that the human embryology committee and the terms u...