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Human Embryo Experiments

Question for Department of Health

UIN HL3846, tabled on 6 December 2016

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to extend the 14-day limit beyond which destructive experiments on human embryos may not take place to 28 days.

Answered on

19 December 2016

The Government has no plans to amend the time limit in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 on the use of human embryos for research.