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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority |
| Question ID: |
1814261 |
| UIN: |
HL8598 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4990 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge
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Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Merron on 12 March (HL Deb col 700), what consideration they have given to reviewing the priorities of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and its role with digital clinics. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-20 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
347 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answer text: |
Digital clinics do not currently fall within the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act and therefore are out outside of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s (HFEA) remit at present.The HFEA published Modernising Fertility Law in November 20... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |