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Conditions of licences for treatment

Amendments made: No. 6, page 9, line 35, leave out ‘being treated’ and insert ‘mentioned in subsection (6A)’.

No. 7, page 9, line 38, leave out ‘to be treated’ and insert ‘mentioned in subsection (6A)’.— [Dawn Primarolo.]

Clause 29


Offences under the 1990 Act

Amendments made: No. 75, page 33, line 6, at end insert—

‘( ) In subsection (7), for “section 10(2)(a)” substitute “section 19B(3)(a) or 20B(3)(e)”.’.

No. 76, page 33, line 11, leave out ‘(7) or’.

No. 77, page 33, line 42 , leave out ‘, (6) and (7)’ and insert ‘and (6)’.— [Dawn Primarolo.]

Clause 30


Regulations under the 1990 Act

Amendment made: No. 8, page 34, line 35, at end insert—

‘section 20A(3);

section 20B(2)’.— [Dawn Primarolo.]

Clause 37


The agreed fatherhood conditions

Amendment made: No. 9, page 37, line 42, at end insert—

‘( ) A notice under subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c) by a person (“S”) who is unable to sign because of illness, injury or physical disability is to be taken to comply with the requirement of subsection (2) as to signature if it is signed at the direction of S, in the presence of S and in the presence of at least one witness who attests the signature.’.— [Dawn Primarolo.]

Clause 43


Treatment provided to woman who agrees that second woman to be parent

Amendment made: No. 10, page 40, line 31, leave out ‘she’ and insert ‘W’.— [Dawn Primarolo.]


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Clause 44


the agreed female parenthood conditions

Amendment made: No. 11, page 41, line 23, at end insert—

‘( ) A notice under subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c) by a person (“S”) who is unable to sign because of illness, injury or physical disability is to be taken to comply with the requirement of subsection (2) as to signature if it is signed at the direction of S, in the presence of S and in the presence of at least one witness who attests the signature.’.— [Dawn Primarolo.]

Clause 46


Embryo transferred after death of civil partner or intended female parent

Amendment made: No. 12, page 41, line 42, leave out ‘the woman’ and insert ‘W’.— [Dawn Primarolo.]

Clause 50


Meaning of references to parties to a civil partnership

Amendment made: No. 13, page 44, line 26, leave out third ‘the’ and insert ‘any’.— [Dawn Primarolo.]

Clause 55


Parental orders: supplementary provision

Amendment made: No. 14, page 48, line 17, leave out ‘relating to’ and insert ‘about’.— [Dawn Primarolo.]

Clause 59


Surrogacy arrangements

Amendments made: No. 15, page 49, line 34, after first ‘any’, insert ‘reasonable’.

No. 16, page 49, line 37, after ‘any’, insert ‘reasonable’.

No. 17, page 50, line 1, after first ‘any’, insert ‘reasonable’.

No. 18, page 50, line 3, after ‘any’, insert ‘reasonable’.

No. 19, page 50, line 5, at end insert—

‘(2C) Any reference in subsection (2A) or (2B) to a reasonable payment in respect of the doing of an act by a non-profit making body is a reference to a payment not exceeding the body’s costs reasonably attributable to the doing of the act.’.— [Dawn Primarolo.]

Clause 64


Power to make consequential and transitional provision etc.

Amendment made: No. 20, page 51, line 42, at end insert—

‘( ) An order under this section which modifies an enactment in consequence of any provision of Part 2 may modify subsection (5) of section 53 (interpretation of references to father etc.).’.— [Dawn Primarolo.]


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Clause 68


Commencement

Amendment proposed: No. 50, page 53, line 19, at end insert—

‘(2A) This section shall be subject to section (prohibition on placing human gametes into an animal).’.—[Dr. Pugh.]

Question put, That the amendment be made:—


The House divided: Ayes 183, Noes 308.
Division No. 287]
[6.36 pm



AYES


Ainsworth, Mr. Peter
Amess, Mr. David
Ancram, rh Mr. Michael
Baker, Norman
Beith, rh Sir Alan
Bellingham, Mr. Henry
Benton, Mr. Joe
Benyon, Mr. Richard
Bone, Mr. Peter
Borrow, Mr. David S.
Brady, Mr. Graham
Brazier, Mr. Julian
Brokenshire, James
Brooke, Annette
Browne, rh Des
Burns, Mr. Simon
Burrowes, Mr. David
Burt, Alistair
Byers, rh Mr. Stephen
Cable, Dr. Vincent
Cash, Mr. William
Chapman, Ben
Chope, Mr. Christopher
Clark, Greg
Clarke, rh Mr. Tom
Connarty, Michael
Cooper, Rosie
Cormack, Sir Patrick
Cox, Mr. Geoffrey
Crabb, Mr. Stephen
Crausby, Mr. David
Cruddas, Jon
Cummings, John
Cunningham, Mr. Jim
Cunningham, Tony
Davies, Mr. Dai
Davies, David T.C. (Monmouth)
Davies, Philip
Davis, rh David
Dodds, Mr. Nigel
Donaldson, rh Mr. Jeffrey M.
Dorries, Mrs. Nadine
Drew, Mr. David
Duddridge, James
Duncan Smith, rh Mr. Iain
Durkan, Mark
Evans, Mr. Nigel
Evennett, Mr. David
Fallon, Mr. Michael
Field, Mr. Mark
Flello, Mr. Robert
Foster, Michael Jabez (Hastings and Rye)
Fox, Dr. Liam
Gibb, Mr. Nick
Gillan, Mrs. Cheryl
Goodman, Mr. Paul
Gray, Mr. James
Green, Damian
Grieve, Mr. Dominic
Grogan, Mr. John
Gummer, rh Mr. John
Gwynne, Andrew
Hammond, Mr. Philip
Hammond, Stephen
Hancock, Mr. Mike
Hands, Mr. Greg
Harper, Mr. Mark
Hayes, Mr. John
Heald, Mr. Oliver
Hemming, John
Hendrick, Mr. Mark
Herbert, Nick
Hillier, Meg
Hoban, Mr. Mark
Hoey, Kate
Hollobone, Mr. Philip
Holloway, Mr. Adam
Horam, Mr. John
Hosie, Stewart
Howard, rh Mr. Michael
Howarth, Mr. Gerald
Howell, John
Hunter, Mark
Hurd, Mr. Nick
Jackson, Mr. Stewart
Jones, Mr. David
Jones, Helen
Kaufman, rh Sir Gerald
Kawczynski, Daniel
Kelly, rh Ruth
Kennedy, rh Mr. Charles
Khan, Mr. Sadiq
Knight, rh Mr. Greg
Lancaster, Mr. Mark
Leigh, Mr. Edward
Letwin, rh Mr. Oliver
Liddell-Grainger, Mr. Ian
Lidington, Mr. David
Lilley, rh Mr. Peter
Loughton, Tim
Mackinlay, Andrew
Maclean, rh David
MacNeil, Mr. Angus
Main, Anne
Malins, Mr. Humfrey
Marsden, Mr. Gordon
Mason, John
Maude, rh Mr. Francis
McAvoy, rh Mr. Thomas
McCrea, Dr. William
McDonnell, Dr. Alasdair
McFall, rh John

McGrady, Mr. Eddie
McGuire, Mrs. Anne
McKenna, Rosemary
McLoughlin, rh Mr. Patrick
Meale, Mr. Alan
Mercer, Patrick
Miller, Mrs. Maria
Milton, Anne
Moss, Mr. Malcolm
Mudie, Mr. George
Mulholland, Greg
Murphy, Mr. Denis
Murphy, rh Mr. Jim
Murphy, rh Mr. Paul
Neill, Robert
Newmark, Mr. Brooks
O'Brien, Mr. Stephen
Owen, Albert
Paisley, rh Rev. Ian
Paterson, Mr. Owen
Penning, Mike
Pope, Mr. Greg
Pound, Stephen
Prisk, Mr. Mark
Pritchard, Mark
Pugh, Dr. John
Randall, Mr. John
Redwood, rh Mr. John
Reed, Mr. Andy
Reid, Mr. Alan
Rifkind, rh Sir Malcolm
Robathan, Mr. Andrew
Robertson, Hugh
Robertson, Mr. Laurence
Rogerson, Dan
Rosindell, Andrew
Rowen, Paul
Roy, Mr. Frank
Ruane, Chris
Russell, Bob
Sanders, Mr. Adrian
Scott, Mr. Lee
Selous, Andrew
Shepherd, Mr. Richard
Simpson, Alan
Singh, Mr. Marsha
Stuart, Ms Gisela
Stuart, Mr. Graham
Swayne, Mr. Desmond
Swire, Mr. Hugo
Syms, Mr. Robert
Taylor, David
Teather, Sarah
Timpson, Mr. Edward
Touhig, rh Mr. Don
Turner, Mr. Andrew
Twigg, Derek
Walker, Mr. Charles
Wallace, Mr. Ben
Walter, Mr. Robert
Wareing, Mr. Robert N.
Waterson, Mr. Nigel
Watkinson, Angela
Webb, Steve
Weir, Mr. Mike
Whittingdale, Mr. John
Widdecombe, rh Miss Ann
Williams, Mark
Wilson, Mr. Rob
Winterton, Ann
Winterton, Sir Nicholas
Tellers for the Ayes:

Jim Dobbin and
Mr. Brian Binley
NOES


Abbott, Ms Diane
Ainger, Nick
Ainsworth, rh Mr. Bob
Alexander, Danny
Alexander, rh Mr. Douglas
Anderson, Mr. David
Anderson, Janet
Armstrong, rh Hilary
Atkins, Charlotte
Atkinson, Mr. Peter
Austin, Mr. Ian
Bailey, Mr. Adrian
Baldry, Tony
Barlow, Ms Celia
Barrett, John
Barron, rh Mr. Kevin
Beckett, rh Margaret
Begg, Miss Anne
Benn, rh Hilary
Bercow, John
Beresford, Sir Paul
Berry, Roger
Betts, Mr. Clive
Blackman, Liz
Blears, rh Hazel
Blizzard, Mr. Bob
Blunkett, rh Mr. David
Blunt, Mr. Crispin
Bradshaw, Mr. Ben
Brake, Tom
Brennan, Kevin
Brown, Lyn
Brown, rh Mr. Nicholas
Brown, Mr. Russell
Browne, Mr. Jeremy
Bryant, Chris
Buck, Ms Karen
Burnham, rh Andy
Burt, Lorely
Butler, Ms Dawn
Butterfill, Sir John
Caborn, rh Mr. Richard
Cairns, David
Campbell, Mr. Alan
Carmichael, Mr. Alistair
Carswell, Mr. Douglas
Caton, Mr. Martin
Cawsey, Mr. Ian
Chaytor, Mr. David
Clappison, Mr. James
Clark, Ms Katy
Clark, Paul
Clarke, rh Mr. Kenneth
Clegg, rh Mr. Nick
Clelland, Mr. David
Clifton-Brown, Mr. Geoffrey
Clwyd, rh Ann
Coaker, Mr. Vernon
Coffey, Ann
Cohen, Harry
Cooper, rh Yvette
Corbyn, Jeremy
Cousins, Jim
Creagh, Mary

Curry, rh Mr. David
Davey, Mr. Edward
David, Mr. Wayne
Davidson, Mr. Ian
Davies, Mr. Quentin
Dean, Mrs. Janet
Denham, rh Mr. John
Devine, Mr. Jim
Dhanda, Mr. Parmjit
Dismore, Mr. Andrew
Djanogly, Mr. Jonathan
Dobson, rh Frank
Donohoe, Mr. Brian H.
Doran, Mr. Frank
Dorrell, rh Mr. Stephen
Dowd, Jim
Dunne, Mr. Philip
Eagle, Angela
Eagle, Maria
Efford, Clive
Ellman, Mrs. Louise
Engel, Natascha
Ennis, Jeff
Fabricant, Michael
Featherstone, Lynne
Fisher, Mark
Fitzpatrick, Jim
Flint, rh Caroline
Flynn, Paul
Follett, Barbara
Foster, Mr. Don
Foster, Mr. Michael (Worcester)
Francis, Dr. Hywel
Gardiner, Barry
George, Andrew
George, rh Mr. Bruce
Gerrard, Mr. Neil
Gibson, Dr. Ian
Goggins, Paul
Goodman, Helen
Goodwill, Mr. Robert
Greening, Justine
Griffith, Nia
Griffiths, Nigel
Hain, rh Mr. Peter
Hall, Mr. Mike
Hall, Patrick
Hamilton, Mr. David
Hamilton, Mr. Fabian
Hanson, rh Mr. David
Harris, Dr. Evan
Harvey, Nick
Havard, Mr. Dai
Healey, John
Heath, Mr. David
Hepburn, Mr. Stephen
Heppell, Mr. John
Hewitt, rh Ms Patricia
Heyes, David
Hill, rh Keith
Hodgson, Mrs. Sharon
Holmes, Paul
Hoon, rh Mr. Geoffrey
Hopkins, Kelvin
Horwood, Martin
Howarth, rh Mr. George
Howells, Dr. Kim
Hughes, rh Beverley
Hughes, Simon
Huhne, Chris
Humble, Mrs. Joan
Hunt, Mr. Jeremy
Illsley, Mr. Eric
Irranca-Davies, Huw
Jack, rh Mr. Michael
Jackson, Glenda
James, Mrs. Siân C.
Jenkin, Mr. Bernard
Jenkins, Mr. Brian
Johnson, rh Alan
Johnson, Ms Diana R.
Jones, Mr. Kevan
Jones, Lynne
Jones, Mr. Martyn
Jowell, rh Tessa
Joyce, Mr. Eric
Keeble, Ms Sally
Keeley, Barbara
Keen, Alan
Keen, Ann
Keetch, Mr. Paul
Kemp, Mr. Fraser
Kennedy, rh Jane
Key, Robert
Kidney, Mr. David
Kilfoyle, Mr. Peter
Kirkbride, Miss Julie
Knight, Jim
Kramer, Susan
Kumar, Dr. Ashok
Ladyman, Dr. Stephen
Lait, Mrs. Jacqui
Lamb, Norman
Lammy, Mr. David
Lansley, Mr. Andrew
Laws, Mr. David
Laxton, Mr. Bob
Lazarowicz, Mark
Leech, Mr. John
Lepper, David
Lewis, Mr. Ivan
Linton, Martin
Lloyd, Tony
Love, Mr. Andrew
Lucas, Ian
Mackay, rh Mr. Andrew
MacShane, rh Mr. Denis
Mactaggart, Fiona
Mahmood, Mr. Khalid
Malik, Mr. Shahid
Mallaber, Judy
Mann, John
Maples, Mr. John
Marris, Rob
Marshall-Andrews, Mr. Robert
Martlew, Mr. Eric
McCafferty, Chris
McCarthy, Kerry
McCartney, rh Mr. Ian
McDonnell, John
McFadden, Mr. Pat
McIntosh, Miss Anne
McIsaac, Shona
McKechin, Ann
McNulty, rh Mr. Tony
Merron, Gillian
Michael, rh Alun
Milburn, rh Mr. Alan
Miliband, rh Edward
Miller, Andrew
Mitchell, Mr. Andrew
Mitchell, Mr. Austin
Moffat, Anne

Moffatt, Laura
Mole, Chris
Moore, Mr. Michael
Moran, Margaret
Morgan, Julie
Morley, rh Mr. Elliot
Mountford, Kali
Mullin, Mr. Chris
Munn, Meg
Naysmith, Dr. Doug
Olner, Mr. Bill
Osborne, Mr. George
Palmer, Dr. Nick
Pearson, Ian
Pelling, Mr. Andrew
Penrose, John
Plaskitt, Mr. James
Prentice, Mr. Gordon
Prescott, rh Mr. John
Price, Adam
Primarolo, rh Dawn
Prosser, Gwyn
Purchase, Mr. Ken
Purnell, rh James
Rammell, Bill
Raynsford, rh Mr. Nick
Reed, Mr. Jamie
Rennie, Willie
Riordan, Mrs. Linda
Robertson, John
Robinson, Mr. Geoffrey
Ruddock, Joan
Ryan, rh Joan
Salter, Martin
Shapps, Grant
Sharma, Mr. Virendra
Shaw, Jonathan
Sheerman, Mr. Barry
Sheridan, Jim
Short, rh Clare
Simmonds, Mark
Simon, Mr. Siôn
Skinner, Mr. Dennis
Slaughter, Mr. Andy
Smith, rh Mr. Andrew
Smith, Ms Angela C. (Sheffield, Hillsborough)
Smith, rh Jacqui
Smith, John
Smith, Sir Robert
Snelgrove, Anne
Spellar, rh Mr. John
Spink, Bob
Starkey, Dr. Phyllis
Steen, Mr. Anthony
Stoate, Dr. Howard
Straw, rh Mr. Jack
Stringer, Graham
Stunell, Andrew
Sutcliffe, Mr. Gerry
Swinson, Jo
Tami, Mark
Taylor, Ms Dari
Taylor, Mr. Ian
Taylor, Matthew
Taylor, Dr. Richard
Thomas, Mr. Gareth
Thornberry, Emily
Timms, rh Mr. Stephen
Tipping, Paddy
Todd, Mr. Mark
Tredinnick, David
Trickett, Jon
Tyrie, Mr. Andrew
Ussher, Kitty
Vara, Mr. Shailesh
Viggers, Sir Peter
Villiers, Mrs. Theresa
Walley, Joan
Waltho, Lynda
Watts, Mr. Dave
Whitehead, Dr. Alan
Wicks, Malcolm
Williams, rh Mr. Alan
Williams, Mrs. Betty
Williams, Hywel
Williams, Mr. Roger
Willott, Jenny
Wills, Mr. Michael
Wilson, Phil
Winnick, Mr. David
Winterton, rh Ms Rosie
Wishart, Pete
Wood, Mike
Woodward, rh Mr. Shaun
Woolas, Mr. Phil
Wright, Mr. Anthony
Wright, David
Wright, Mr. Iain
Wright, Dr. Tony
Wyatt, Derek
Young, rh Sir George
Tellers for the Noes:

Claire Ward and
Steve McCabe
Question accordingly negatived.
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6.48 pm

Sir Patrick Cormack (South Staffordshire) (Con): On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I wonder whether I could appeal to you as the guardian of the reputation of this House of Commons. I completely understand that you can make no comment about the contents or quality of a Bill, but this Bill is of enormous, far-reaching importance. Parenting is in its title but there has been no opportunity to debate that. We are not going to have a Third Reading to discuss any of it as it leaves this House. People up and down this land will just not understand that. Would you be prepared, Sir, to discuss this with the Procedure Committee, so that never again does a Bill of this major importance go through without a proper Third Reading?


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Mr. Speaker: The House has decided. These decisions have been made by the House. What I would say to the hon. Gentleman is that it is best that he goes to the Procedure Committee and raises the matter with it, because if I take the matter up, it may appear as though I am giving some steer or guidance to the Committee, and I should be neutral in these matters.

Schedule 3


Consent to use or storage of gametes, embryos or human admixed embryos etc.

Amendments made: No. 21, page 60, line 32, leave out ‘a’ and insert ‘any’.

No. 22, page 73, leave out lines 36 to 46 and insert—

‘(4) Condition B is that—’.

No. 23, page 73, line 47, leave out from ‘(“P”)’ to end of line 48 and insert

No. 24, page 74, line 1, leave out ‘the person responsible under the licence (“R”)’ and insert ‘R’.

No. 25, page 74, line 7, after ‘died’, insert ‘(or is believed to have died)’.

No. 26, page 74, line 10, at end insert—

‘(4A) Condition C is that—

(a) the person responsible under the licence (“R”) has taken all reasonable steps to contact—

(i) the person falling within sub-paragraph (1)(b) (“P”), or

(ii) in a case where P is dead or R believes on reasonable grounds that P is dead, persons who could give consent for the purposes of sub-paragraph (4)(c),

but has been unable to do so, and

(b) the information relating to P that is available to R does not suggest that P would have objected to the use of P’s human cells to bring about the creation in vitro of an embryo or human admixed embryo for use for the purposes of the project.’.— [Dawn Primarolo.]

Schedule 6


Amendments relating to parenthood in cases involving assisted reproduction

Amendments made: No. 27, page 85, line 15, leave out ‘that person’ and insert ‘the woman concerned’.

No. 28, page 87, line 36, after ‘of’, insert ‘the formation of’.

No. 29, page 88, line 9, after ‘time’, insert ‘of the formation’.

No. 30, page 95, line 17, leave out from third ‘the’ to ‘shall’ in line 19 and insert


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